LIFE OP 



the hope which he had most at heart, was that of being 

 enabled to assist his family, and in some degree requite 

 the care and anxiety of his father and mother, by making 

 them comfortable in their declining years. 



The indulgence shown him by his college, in provid- 

 ing him a tutor during the long vacation, was peculiarly 

 unfortunate. His only chance of life was from relaxa- 

 tion, and home was the only place where he would have 

 relaxed to any purpose. Before this time he had seemed 

 to be gaining strength ; it failed as the year advanced ; 

 he went once more to London, to recruit himself, — the 

 worst place to which he could have gone ; the variety of 

 stimulating objects there hurried and agitated him, and 

 when he returned to college, he was so completely ill, 

 that no power of medicine could save him. His mind 

 was worn out, and it was the opinion of his medical at- 

 tendants, that if he had recovered, his intellect would 

 have been affected. His brother Neville was just at 

 this time to have visited him. On his first seizure, 

 Henry found himself too ill to receive him, and wrote to 

 say so ; he added, with that anxious tenderness towards 

 the feelings of a most aifectionate family whick always 

 appeared in his letters, that he thought himself recover- 

 ing ; but his disorder increased so rapidly, that this let- 

 ter was never sent ; it was found in his pocket after his 

 decease. One of his friends wrote to acquaint Neville 

 with his danger : he hastened down ; but Henry was 

 delirious when he arrived. Pie knew him only for a few 

 moments ; the next day sunk into a state of stupor ; and 

 on Sunday, October 19th, 1806, it pleased God to re- 

 move him to a better world, and a higher state of ex- 

 istence.* 



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The will which I had manifested to serve Henry, he 

 had accepted as the deed, and had expressed himself upon 

 the subject in terms which it would have humbled me to 

 read, at any other time than when I was performing the 



■' A tablet to Henry Kirke White's memory, has been erected over 

 his grave in All Saints Church, Cambridge, at the expense of Mr Fran- 

 cis Boot of Boston, United States. 



