A SPLENDID RECORD 



century." Had she been capable of self-advertise- 

 ment, which she was not, her splendid record of 

 beneficent work must have received some official 

 recognition of a national character. But she will 

 live in the memory of those who could understand 

 and appreciate her self-denying life as one of the 

 greatest benefactors to agriculture the world has 

 ever produced, and one of the most remarkable 

 women of the nineteenth century. She died in 

 1901, and, as I have never ceased to value the 

 privilege of knowing her, I could not well omit 

 her from my budget of old memories. 



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