Her benevolent work included that of the church, the educational institutions of Massachusetts, the general theological library, and the prisons and reformatory schools of the state.

She was elected a director of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union,[1] and an officer of the Beneficent Society whose members aided talented and needy students to pass the course of study in the New England Conservatory of Music.

[1] In 1879, she traveled in Europe, and on her return, published a book, entitled, Glimpses of the Old World (1881), which was favorably received because of its style and wealth of information on art and history.

[4] Notably amongst the elaborate essays that Crane read before literary associations may be mentioned, "Cordova under the Moors in the Tenth Century" and "The History of Music from the early Egyptian down to the present time", which she illustrated with her voice, giving interpretations of native songs as heard by her in her extensive travels in Europe and the Orient.

[9] She was for several years treasurer of the New England Women's Club and a member of the Executive Council of the Boston Woman's Business League, also a director in the Woman's Club House Corporation, a member of the Woman's Charity Club, of the Moral Education Association, of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, of the beneficent society connected with the New England Conservatory of the Cercle Francais de l'Alliance, and of the Society for the University Education of Women.

After that event, she accompanied her husband in an extended foreign tour, travelling in the British Isles, on the Continent, and in the East, spending a winter in Cairo and visiting Syria, the scene of Dr. Crane's missionary labors many years before.

A large number of photographs and other souvenirs attested the assiduity with which their labors as collectors were pursued, from the pyramids of Egypt to the Alhambra.

General Henry B. Carrington, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, who was intimately acquainted with Mrs. Crane as the wife and afterward the widow of his classmate, the Rev.

In his last illness the intimacy became more constant, until, as his last request, I promised to give to her the affection and care of a true brother as long as she should survive his departure.

Voted, that until further action by the Trustees of Boston University, the income of the Bailey-Crane Fund shall be applied for the aid of worthy and needy young women in the School of Medicine selected by the Faculty of the same.