3 o6 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRJS 



seventh edition of his favourite treatise, the " Natural 

 History of British Butterflies/' which Mr. John C. 

 Nimmo had undertaken to publish along with other 

 of my father's works. This task was duly per- 

 formed, and the proofs sent, with additions and 

 corrections, to Mr. Fawcett's office in Driffield, 

 where this edition was printed, as the first had been 

 about forty years before. The last pages were com- 

 pleted, as previously mentioned, by the author only 

 a very few days before he died. It is worthy of 

 remark that his old associate, Mr. Fawcett, died 

 at the beginning of 1893, being a year or so his 

 senior. 



Up to this time he continued with more or less 

 frequency to keep up his correspondence in the 

 newspapers ; the last letter that he penned of this 

 kind was one he wrote to the editor of the Yorkshire 

 Herald, headed " Winter and Winter," being dated 

 January 16, 1893, and contained, as so many pre- 

 vious ones had done, kindly thoughts for others. 

 It spoke, as it were, forebodingly of the severity 

 of the season, as may be seen from the following 

 quotation. He wrote : 



"My words have come only too true as to the 

 continuance and increase of the cold weather we 

 have had, are having, and may have before we 

 have done with it, or it with us. It has been a 

 most unusually trying time for all, young and old, 

 rich and poor. 1 was thankful to you for making 

 room for my letter the other week advocating some 

 better provision for the poor shoeblack boys, as 



