There is a rumour to the effect that the King intends to institute a new order very shortly, with the object of conferring it on distinguished women. The name spoken of for it is the Edward and Alexandra order. The idea seems to me better than the title, as there are tainly women to whom some distinotive honour seems due. The Baroness Burdett-Courts is the only woman T can think of just now who has been singled out for "special honour. Mr. Disraeli accepted a title for his wife before he would take it himself, but one can think of many more women upon wont members of her sex would have liked to special honour conferred, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau, and others. They would perhaps say they did not desire public recognition of any good they had been enabled to do, but T think the idea will appeal to many, art to no one more than her Majesty herself.
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