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1852 Rachel had begun to feel acutely the havoc that continual wandering and over-exertion had wrought upon her delicate constitution.

She wrote to her mother about her depression and incapacity for work in these terms:—

She had been invited by the King of Prussia to visit Berlin in the summer. Although suffering from want of sleep and overtaxed nerves, the demon of unrest that now seemed to have permanently taken possession of her, induced the actress to accept the invitation. In Brussels, on her way to Berlin, she almost com-