The daughter taking part in this poignant farewell is about to start a new life as a self-supporting adult. The illustration appears on the jacket of Letters to a Business Girl by Florence Wenderoth Saunders, published in 1908 (Laird & Lee, Chicago), and subtitled "The Personal Letters of a Business Woman to Her Daughter. Replete with Practical Information Regarding the Perplexing Problems of a Girl Stenographer." The volume is from Radcliffe College's Schlesinger Librnry on the History of Women in America, which collects manuscripts, books, and other materials on all aspects of the social and intellectual history of women. Letters to a Business Girl was included in a 1995 Harvard College Library exhibition, To Make You Wiser and Better· Advice and Instruction for Girls and Boys, Men and Women.