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 PREFACE. 7 duties, to complete his preparation of the information collected ; which, with various communications from valued friends, and notices already given to the public in various forms, he offers this as a Memorial of Friend- ship, in honour of one whom he regarded, to use the appropriate expression of an estimable Minister of Christ, after having, for many years, known much of Mrs. Fry, as "A RARE SPECIMEN OF RENOVATED AND SANCTIFIED HUMANITY !" Lewisham, November 2, 1846.