Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII. 1841, 1842. Letter to Colonel Jebb--Leaves home for the Continent-- Rotterdam--The Hague --Amsterdam--Bremen--Hamburg-- Lubeck Copenhagen--Return to Hamburg--Minden and Pyrmont--Hanover --Berlin--Silesia-- Illness -- Accident -- Return home -- Ramsgate-- Upton Lane--Lynn--Earlham--Winter at home--Communications with the Continent--The King of Prussia in England--Sale at the Mansion House--Letter to her eldest son--Autumn at Cromer--Fisherman's Reading-room--Letters from the Continent--Return by West Norfolk to Upton Lane. From the time of Mrs. Fry's return from her journey the preceding year, she had continually received communications from the Continent, urging her to visit places, where she had not been, or to return and complete her work where she had already commenced it. When she heard of these openings for usefulness, her heart responded to the call. Her daughter, whose fearful illness had caused her such extreme anxiety, had nearly recovered it effects, and another daughter, who had passed the winter in Italy with her family was again in England. Her home party was provided for, having arranged to spend the autumn at Ramsgate; whilst her beloved brother, Joseph John Gurney, offered her the great advantage of his society and support--he believing it his duty to visit several places on the Continent, for various religious and philanthropic purposes, especially, to impart the observations he had made during his lengthened tarriance in America and the West Indies, on slavery, and slaveholding, to those potentates, who still permitted this evil to exist in their dominions. Mrs. Fry shrunk from the great effort of leaving home, and encountering the fatigue of travelling, from the shaken state of her health; for her...
