and do not need my care; I would like to devote my remaining years, as far as I am able, to better the condition of those poor sufferers in the Asylum.”  He answered, “I hope you will, for I think it will be well for them to have your care, and I will do all I can to assist you.”  These were his words, as near as I can remember, and I left the Government House, feeling as if I had been making a pleasant call on an old friend.  I write these last few lines as a tribute of respect to the memory of the name of Governor Wilmot, and that of my own father, who always had the interests of his country at heart.

I returned to the city feeling cheered by the words of encouragement and sympathy I had received.  It well repaid me for the trouble of my journey to Fredericton.

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I will leave this subject now in the hands of the ladies, wherever this little book may find them, who, having leisure and influence, will not, I hope, fail to use them for the benefit of suffering humanity, remembering we are all children of one Father—­Our Father in Heaven.  Improve the talent He has given you, that it may be said to you, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”

                    Respectfully,
                                             M. H. P.