occasions 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 heavenly teaching through which her subdued and sanctified spirit had been called to pass.  Her affectionate salutation in parting, unconsciously closed, in regard to most of them, the intercourse which they delighted to hold with her, but which can be no more renewed on this side of the eternal world.

At this time Mrs. Fry found intense satisfaction in learning that the London prisons—­Newgate, Bridewell, Millbank, Giltspur Street, Compter, Whitecross Street, Tothill Fields, and Coldbath Fields—­were all in more or less excellent order, and regularly visited by the ladies who had been her coadjutors, and were to be her successors.