[2] In San Francisco, Stevens started an evening school for working girls, and instituted the Seaman's League.

[6] Stevens purchased the California Sunday Mercury and re-purposed it to be the first written suffrage periodical in the Pacific states.

[6] This paper sought equal justice for Laura Fair, who was standing trial on a charge of killing her lover.

[4] During the period of 1865 to 1870, she was associated with the all-woman Women’s Cooperative Printing Union, and was the founder of the Woman’s Publishing Company.

[2] She was aided by prominent men in placing the stock of the company, and through it, she exercised great influence in advancing the cause of woman in California.

[6] In the following year, at the request of the president of the Nevada WCTU, Stevens was detailed for work in that state, and left San Francisco, early in May.

[4][c] In 1872, the San Francisco Chronicle made an implied comment that Stevens had been married previously, ergo her maiden name may not have been Pitts.