ns with her wonted fire and persuasiveness. It seemed
as if her powerful memory was revived, seeing that the stores of
Scripture which she had made hers were now drawn upon with singular
aptness and felicity. After paying one or two farewell visits to North
Repps and Runcton she returned once more to Upton Lane. Once settled
there, she received many marks of sympathy from the excellent of all
denominations, as well as from the noble and rich. The Duchess of
Sutherland and her daughters, the Chevalier de Bunsen, and others who
had heard of or known her, called upon her with every token of
respectful affection; while, on her part, she spoke and acted as if in
the very light of Eternity. So anxious, indeed, was she still to do what
she conceived to be her Master's work, that she made prodigious efforts
to attend meetings connected with the Society of Friends and with her
own special prison work. Thus she was present at two of the yearly
meetings for Friends in London in May, and on June 3d attended the
annual meeting at the British Ladies' Society. This meeting was removed
from the usual place at Westminster to the Friends' meeting-house at
Plaistow, in deference to Mrs. Fry's infirm health and visibly-declining
strength. In a report issued by this society, some four or five weeks
after Mrs. Fry's death, the committee paid a fitting tribute to her
labors with them, and the sacred preeminence she had won in the course
of those labors. In the memorial they referred to this meeting in the
following terms:--

Contrary to usual custom, the place of meeting fixed on was not in
London, but at Plaistow, in Essex, and the large number of friends
who gathered around her on that occasion, proved how gladly they
came to her when she could no longer, with ease, be conveyed to
them. The enfeebled state of her bodily frame seemed to have left
the powers of her mind unshackled, and she took, though in a
sitting posture, almost her usual part in repeatedly addressing the
meeting. She urged, with increased pathos and affection, the
objects of philanthropy and Christian benevolence with which her
life had been identified. After the meeting, and at her own desire,
several members of the committee, and other friends, assembled at
her house. They were welcomed by her with the greatest benignity
and kindness, and in her intercourse with them, strong were the
indications of the