The book appeared in 1883, entitled _Our Famous Women_.
Once when Miss Willard was in Boston with Lady Henry Somerset and Anna Gordon, I was delighted by a letter from Frances saying that Lady Henry wanted to know me and could I lunch with them soon at the Abbottsford.

I accepted joyously, but next morning's mail brought this depressing decision: "Dear Kate, we have decided that there will be more meat in going to you.

When can we come ?" I was hardly settled in my house of the Abandoned Farm.

There was no furnace in the house, only two servants with me.

And it would be impossible to entertain those friends properly in the dead of the winter, and I nearly ready to leave for a milder clime.