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was the youngest of my three children. All the three were of great promise, and all the three were taken away from me early, in the very bloom of youth. I note the dates in which they were born, and the dates in which it pleased the Lord to remove them hence.

All my children accompanied me in one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers to Bombay in the year 1863, and after one year's stay there returned with me to Calcutta. Two only accompanied me to Europe in November 1869, and returned home with me in November 1873.

Excepting for a few months in France, Aru and Toru were never put to school, but they sedulously attended the lectures for women in Cambridge, during our stay in England.

Both the sisters kept diaries of their travels in Europe, which I still possess.

In the performance of all domestic duties, Aru and