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all the many persons to whom her success was 
largely due. 
They will always be remembered with grati- 
tude, for they gave her assistance in securing an 
end far dearer to her than personal comfort. 
Indeed, comfort was something quite disregarded. 
So intent was she upon securing as many objects 
of interest as possible for the proposed museum, 
that she often spent for them the means which 
should have been used for her physical needs, 
renting a cheap room and subsisting upon such 
food as cost least. Indeed, so occupied were her 
thoughts in other directions that, after breakfast- 
ing, the necessity of eating would often be for- 
gotten for the rest of the day. 
Under such circumstances, of course unsus- 
pected by them, the interest and elegant hos- 
pitality of gentlemen and ladies whose culture 
and urbanity it is a pleasure to recall, was some- 
thing indeed to be appreciated ; and it should be 
a comfort to all who are giving themselves un- 
sparingly to any great cause, that the world holds 
not a few who find their highest pleasure in doing 
honor to those who personate ideas, irrespective 
of their circumstances or surroundings. 
Among this class of the world’s real nobility 
Mrs. Maxwell found friends, who were ready to 
accompany her in her search for curiosities into 
all manner of out-of-the-way places. In collect- 
