364 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1868. He bore the blow as bravely and firmly as he had borne 

 other trials, expressing his full confidence in the wisdom 

 which had removed from among us one who seemed in- 

 tended to tread in his own steps on earth. But another 

 trial awaited us in the illness of our third daughter. I had 

 to leave home with her for several weeks, and she recovered 

 so far as to remove much anxiety. In the year 1868 my 

 husband's own health, which had continued steadily to 

 decline, broke down entirely. A sharp attack of conges- 

 tion of the brain, the result of so much intense mental 

 suffering, left him so prostrated that it was evident he 

 never again would be equal to sustained effort. 



We moved in the summer to 6 Merton Road, near 

 Primrose Hill, a house which he said was the most 

 comfortable he had been in since our marriage. We 

 dreaded this moving on account of his weak state, but 

 all was ready to receive him, and he did not suffer. 



In his enfeebled condition the task of placing his books 

 was a heavy one. The room destined for them was much 

 smaller than the one he had had in Adelaide Eoad, which 

 he said was a palace. It was a work of time for him to 

 measure the walls, and to direct the placing of the new 

 shelves, but it was done, with intervals of rest. Alarge num- 

 ber of the books had been sold, but about 3,000 remained, 

 and I feared he could not get them all in, and of course 

 begged him to have help. He said, with his old spirit, 

 6 They shall all go in, and I will put them all in myself; ' 

 and so he did. The work was done gradually, and I do 

 not think it hurt him. He always liked looking through 

 his treasures, and showing to any friend any special 

 rarity. 



During the last few years of his life my husband occu- 

 pied himself a good deal in reading the Greek Testament, 

 and comparing the different versions and translations. I 

 regret much that many comments which he made on this 

 subject were not preserved, as he did not write them. He 

 also compiled a sort of history of his family and biography 



