I write suffrage articles continually--I sign petitions.' "I was delighted to find that she had been an intimate friend of Mrs.
Somerville; had corresponded with her for years, and had a letter from her after she was ninety-two years of age, when she was reading Quaternions for amusement.

She said that Mrs.Somerville would probably have called herself a Unitarian, but that really she was a Theist, and that it came out more in her later life.

She said she was correcting proof of the Life by the daughters; that the Life was intensely interesting; that Mrs.Somerville mourned all her life that she had not had the advantages of education.
"I asked her how I could get a photograph of Mrs.Somerville, and she said they could not be bought.

She told me, without any hint from me, that she would give Vassar College a plaster cast of the bust of Mrs.
Somerville.

[Footnote: This bust always stood in Miss Mitchell's parlor at the observatory.] She said, as women grew older, if they lived independent lives, they were pretty sure to be 'women's rights women.' She said the clergy--the broadest, who were in harmony with her--were very courteous, and that since she had grown old (she's about forty-five) all men were more tolerant of her and forgot the difference of sex.
"I felt drawn to her when she was most serious.