were so abundant at this time of
the year, and which our good neighbours sent to us so frequently. The
birds were singing all about and the summer sun shone brilliantly.

"And may there be no sadness of farewell
When I embark.
For though when from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.'

Those exquisite lines of Lord Tennyson's seem so appropriate to my
father, to his dread of good-byes, to his great and simple faith, that I
have ventured to quote them here.

* * * * *

On the morning after he died, we received a very kind visit from Sir John
Millais, then Mr. Millais, R.A. and Mr. Woolner, R.A. Sir John made a
beautiful pencil drawing of my father, and Mr. Woolner took a cast of his
head, from which he afterwards modelled a bust. The drawing belongs to
my sister, and is one of her greatest treasures. It is, like all Sir
John's drawings, most delicate and refined, and the likeness absolutely
faithful to what my father looked in death.

* * * * *

You remember that when he was describing the illustrations of Little
Nell's death-bed he wrote: "I want it to express the most beautiful
repose and tranquillity, and to have something of a happy look, if death
can." Surely this was what his death-bed expressed--infinite happiness
and rest.

As my father had expressed a wish to be buried in the quiet little
church-yard at Shorne, arrangements were made for the interment to take
place there. This intention was, however, abandoned, in consequence of a
request from the Dean and chapter of Rochester Cathedral that his bones
might repose there. A grave was prepared and everything arranged when it
was made known to us, through Dean Stanley, that there was a general and
very earnest desire that he should find his last resting-place in
Westminster Abbey. To such a tribute to our dear father's memory we
could make no possible objection, although it was with great regret that
we relinquished the plan to lay him in a spot so closely identified with
his life and works.

The only stipulation which was made in connection with the burial at
Westminster Abbey was that the clause in his will which read: "I
emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious
and and strictly private manner," should be strictly