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of which she died on Christmas Day. From the childhood of 

 her younger cousin she had been his confidante, and, herself a 

 writer of poetry, she was also the depositary of all his effusions. 

 They were warmly attached to each other. Mrs. Leadbeater 

 was lovely in person, in mind, and in heart, and was long 

 and deeply lamented. 



In a letter to another relative Dr. Harvey says, "I can 

 hardly realize to myself what has occurred, it seems so very 

 sudden. The Doctor and I had long settled to spend our 

 Christmas with her, and now our next meeting will be beside 

 her grave. I have been thinking much this evening of her own 

 beautiful lines — 



' Oil could I choose my time to die, 



It should he ere the hour 

 That age had dimmed my youthful eye, 



And gone was youthful power; 

 With lingering step may I depart, 



That ere my latest breath, 

 I may have learned from all to part, 



And calmly meet thee, Death.' 



You know the lines well. The first part of her wish has 

 been granted, and I trust the second also, though we know 

 not now, and may never know it till we shall meet 'at 

 the end of the days,' should we be strengthened ' to stand 

 in our lot ' in that awful assembly. We have lost another 

 member from onr little circle ; it ought to be another cord 

 loosened, another step advanced on our own journey. Would 

 that it were truly so !" 



Though the year 1847 must appear little more than a blank 

 in these pages, it was by no means an idle one with Dr. Harvey. 

 The drawing and describing for his "Phycologia Britannica," in 

 addition to his College work, so fully occupied him as to afford 

 little leisure for any correspondence beyond the letters con- 

 nected with his labours, or such scientific ones as are not within 

 the scope of the present memoir. The following, however, to 

 his friend Mr. Thompson, seems well suited for insertion here, 

 as marking the candour which was so prominent a feature in 

 both characters. It undoubtedly has reference to the " Phyco- 

 logia," to which Mr. T. had contributed many of the habitats. 



