The death of Mrs. Stevenson has carried sadness into many hearts. None who knew her can fail to grieve over the passing from out of their lives of that sweet and gracious personality. To me the loss is very great, as we were united in sentiment during the critical early days of the organization of our great Society the Daughters of the American Revolution. I have always greatly valued her harmonizing influence upon very com- plicated and even antagonistic conditions evident in those times, and it has been a source of permanent satisfaction to me that through the devotion of my personal friends in the Society, I was able to contribute towards her first election to the high office she filled so well. When, at the election by the Second Continental Congress, February, 1893, my name was among those urged for the office of which I was discharging the duties, I prevailed upon my friends to permit me to withdraw it openly, and to transfer their votes to Mrs. Stevenson, whom I had already named to them as the proper successor to Mrs. Harrison, and my judgment in this matter was confirmed, not only by Mrs. Stevenson's first ten- ure of office, but by her unanimous re-election after the one inter- vening administration of Mrs. Foster. Such a re-election, under such circumstances, was the truest possible testimonial to the beautiful qualities of one whom so many united to value and to love. That the honor and welfare of our Society, unique in its or- ganization and its aims, may be always upheld by the leadership of such women as its two earliest presidents, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Stevenson, is the profound wish of the woman who in per-