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In 1870, Hanbury went to Mortola for a short time to 

 superintend the estate of his brother Thomas, during the 

 temporary absence of the latter in China. Judging from 

 his letters he became head gardener as well as director- 

 general. When there, commiserating the condition of 

 the Italian coast-guard on that part of the shore, he Italian 

 ordered from Florence a small collection of books for guard. 

 their amusement and instruction. These were chiefly 

 translations of well-known English works. The gift was 

 duly acknowledged by the 'official thanks of the Italian 

 Government. 



It is due to the fine character of Daniel Hanbury to Private 

 reveal the source of his unbroken equanimity a deep 

 spirit of devotion which found its expression, not in out- 

 ward declarations, but in the uniform tenor of his life. 

 Sometimes, indeed, the angel troubled the waters, and 

 he was not afraid to give utterance to the sentiments 

 of his heart once more especially, when in an earnest 

 conversation he contended for the spirituality and the 

 vital influence of the communion of which he was a 

 member. 



No pressure of literary work was allowed to interfere 

 with his morning's reading in the Tauchnitz edition of 

 the New Testament His name is absent from the lists 

 of charity, but in works of benevolence he was muni- 

 ficent. A constitutional reserve of manner did him 

 perpetual injustice. He will be mourned longest and the 

 most sincerely by those who were his associates, and by 

 those whom his open-handed generosity^ relieved in their 

 hour of need. 



Happily, the lamented early death of Daniel Hanbury The 

 did not take place before he had finished his great work 

 in association with Professor Fluckiger, called the 



