Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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The album, when completed, was purchased by Mr.
Henry W. Sage, of Ithaca, New-York, the founder
of Sage College for the Education of Women, estab lished in connection with Cornell University, for a sum
which, after deducting the outlay, netted fourthousand
dollars. Meanwhile the war, happily, had terminated,
and it became necessary to apply the proceeds of her
benevolent endeavors to a different purpose from the
one which had originally inspired it. Deliberating
upon a number of different plans, she finally decided
upon one which for a variety of reasons she thought
would be more directly and at the same time more
permanently effective of her purpose than any of the
others. She offered the fund to the French Academy
on condition that the interest should be given in prizes
at appropriate intervals, for the best essays from
any quarter of the world on the following theme:
"Woman; in what way can her domestic, political,
and social relations be modified in the interest of a
higher civilization?"
In selecting the French Academy as her almoner
for the distribution of this prize-money, she felt that
she was committing it to perhaps the most august
literary tribunal among nations, and one more likely
than any other to attract eminent talent to the serious
consideration of woman's proper place in the world.
It also gave as great a promise of longevity as any
other institution which could be expected to charge
itself with such a duty, and whatever might be issued
under its auspices was certain to receive and to merit
the attention of the nations. It was a bold and noble
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