“I am very sorry that you are in such a chaos. I think it extremely important that the claims of women to equality of recognition in all education should be kept in view. They are too apt to be forgotten by even those who are in principle favourable, so inveterate is the inequity, i.e. iniquity, of English practice in this respect. Your presence on the deputation will be a valuable protest as regards both the existence of the claims themselves and the fact of their being recognized by educational bodies. The nail must be struck on the head again, and again, and again. Wonderful has been the advance already made, but the battle is very far from being already won.
“Yours ever truly,
“W. B. Hodgson.”
In 1873, Miss Buss sent me a letter from Mr. Christie, proposing to elect her a Life-governor of University College, in which she adds—
“Could you write to Mr. Christie in such a way as to answer his question about my ‘services to education’?
“I cannot well see my way to a fair estimate of my own work. At all events, it is easier for some one else to estimate it for me.”
Her own letter to Mr. Christie may be given—
“202, Camden Road, Dec. 5, 1873.
“Dear Mr. Christie,
“I fully see the principle you desire to assert by proposing me as a Life-governor of University College, and I shall be very grateful, not only for the honour conferred on me, if I am elected, but also for the great impetus which would be given to women’s education, by such a recognition. University College has been, of late years, so liberal to women that I trust the opposition to such a course as you propose would be less than formerly.