of Gloucester and others in exalted position she had frequent interviews; and also more than once visited the Duchess of Kent, and her daughter, then the Princess Victoria.  She was always glad to meet persons of rank, hoping to be of use to them personally, and also to increase their interest in works of charity and of mercy.  But she valued above all aristocratic or royal recognition the good opinion of earnest and devoted Christian workers.  Of many gifts which she received, few were more prized by her than a copy of the venerated Hannah More’s Practical Piety, received by her on a visit to Barley Wood, in which the author wrote the following inscription:  “To Mrs. Fry, presented by Hannah More, as a token of veneration of her heroic zeal, Christian charity, and persevering kindness, to the most forlorn of human beings.  They were naked and she clothed them; in prison and she visited them; ignorant and she taught them, for His sake, in His name, and by His word who went about doing good.”

Repeated visits to Ireland, to Scotland, and to different parts of England, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Plymouth, and the Channel Islands, were made at different times in her latter years; forming Prison Associations and fulfilling various engagements.  In 1825 she wrote:  “My occupations are just now multitudinous.  I am sensible of being at times pressed beyond my strength of body and mind.  But the day is short, and I know not how to reject the work that comes to hand to do.”  To enumerate all the good works which she originated or supported, would require more space than a brief memoir could allow.  Societies for visiting prisons, libraries for the Coastguard men, reformatory schools for juvenile offenders, were among the many institutions which she established.  An excellent institution at Hackney, bearing the name of the Elizabeth Fry Refuge, for the reception of discharged female prisoners, will long perpetuate the memory of her useful work.

In the summer of 1829, the family removed to a small but convenient house in Upton Lane, adjoining the Ham House grounds, the residence of her brother Samuel Gurney.  In this place she passed most of her later years, and from it she went out on her many expeditions in England or on the Continent.

XII.

Visits to the continent.

It was not till 1838, the year after the accession of Queen Victoria, that Mrs. Fry paid her first visit to France.  She saw most of the prisons of Paris, and she had most pleasant interviews with King Louis Philippe, the Queen, and the Duchess of Orleans.  The Queen was much pleased with the “Text Book,” prepared some years before, and said she would keep it in her pocket and use it daily.  Rouen, Caen, Havre, as well as Paris, were visited.  A second journey in France, in 1839, began at Boulogne, and thence by Abbeville to Paris.  Here she again took