NEARING Till 1 N'D 



It WM a work of devotion to a father'* memory and 

 greatness, executed with untiring iftal and sometimes 

 ken bones. She wa* unable to read 

 record of the splendid work her nephew accom- 

 plished, when can of laborious research, and a 

 longer period of were at last crowned with 

 presenting to the world a book, of which it may be 

 safely said, that no single publication, .luring the last 

 lias made so many and such considerable 

 .<nl.litK.ii- boom knowledge of the constitution of the 

 heavens." What she couM nut read herself, another 

 read n- phew recommended when he 

 sent her a copy <>f th<- \v 



As th- Irow nearer, there is 



no longer the same desire to live she f* It in previous 

 years 1 have been rety ill and conHncd to my 

 room now three weeks, but it seems the Destn 

 Angel has passed away, at which I am very glad, 

 because I wish to be a little better prepared for making 

 my exit than I am at present/' She was then ei 

 years of age, A few years later she began to feel 

 more keenly the sadness of life, and the longing for 

 something better than it ever gives. Many of the best 

 and brightest minds have felt as she felt when she 

 wrote these words : " The whole of yesterday I had no 

 prospect but that it would have been the last of 

 the days of sorrow, trouble and disappointment I 

 spent from tin- imnii.-nt I had any recollection of my 

 existenc* rom between my third and fourth 



year. ... In the night I fell out of one fainting fit 

 into another, and when I came to my recollection, be- 

 tween six and seven in the morning -1 Dr. Q. 

 talking loud in his usual nonsensical 



