wild flowers now but I think how you used then to
take them in your hands and feel them, and exclaim, "How beautiful
they are," admiring and loving them far more than any of us, I
always believed.

The chain, too, is highly prized, and I am delighted to show it to
my friends, and both to tell them that you could work it, and that
it was worked for me.

I feel almost inclined to draw up a short account of your
institution, with a little memoir of the foundress, appending some
of the verses suggested in former years to my mind by your cheerful
and happy contentedness in the midst of those sad privations which
you now seek to alleviate in others.

Circulated together with the more official and, of course, less
affectionate "statement" which was lately sent about, a little
memoir of this kind might do good to the cause. I should entitle it
"God's Fondness to the Blind," and it need not exceed many pages.

If you approve I will set about it at once, and let you have the
results of my labour of love in the shape of proof sheets in a few
days.

We join heartily in wishing you and all your home party a happy
Christmas, and with much affection, I am always, my dear Bessie,
most truly yours,
H. KYNASTON.

Miss Gilbert, Chichester.

Dr. Kynaston's suggestion was not carried out, it must have been most
distasteful to Bessie.

Just in proportion to her desire to make known the cause for which she
worked was her dislike to personal notoriety. She felt keenly moreover,
and at all times, the pain of becoming remarkable through a calamity or
a defect. She could appreciate the writer's motive, and would answer
kindly and gratefully; but the proposal was at once put firmly aside.

Her eldest brother, Mr. Wintle (he had taken his grandfather's name),
gave her much valuable assistance during 1856. He and Mr. Henry
Bathurst, brother of her friend Caroline Bathurst, acted somewhat
informally as auditors during the year, compared vouchers, examined
bills, and no doubt enlightened her as to the method of book-keeping
which would have to be adopted so soon as the Committee was fairly
established, and had taken over the management of the institution. This
was not done until January 1857. Bessie was probably anxious to draw up
rules for the institution which should embody he