CONCLUSION THIS was the last letter to Mrs. Frere. She died on May 5, 1892. A few weeks before that, on Feb. 17, a slight paralytic seizure had fallen upon the dean, depriving him almost entirely of the power to write, and affecting also, though in a lesser degree, his power of speech. A few short notes, one to his eldest grandson on going to Winchester, another to Dean Lake, were written or dictated in the course of that spring, and then the pen which had been so constantly in his hand all through life was laid aside. Through that summer and the next he waited, patient and trustful, for the end which could not now be far off. Sometimes he would take a drive in his wheel-chair round the College precincts or into the cathedral, or he would sit for an hour in the garden watching the men at work upon the cathedral roof, or his grandchildren at play. The evenings were passed in reading aloud from the packets of old letters sent from Barton Place, from some recent memoir, or a volume of Macaulay's History— or his own History, which he declared he had quite forgotten and found very interesting! And so the months wore on, and always the decline was very gradual, very gentle, soothed by the tender affection of family and friends, and cheered by his own sweet temper and playful wit, which threw bright gleams even over the pain and weariness of his last illness. Towards the close of November, 1893, a day or two of exceptionally cold weather brought on another stroke. He took to his bed, and lay for three weeks, hovering between life and death. Then the end came, peaceful and beautiful, on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 27. A week later the body of Charles Merivale was laid in the grave in the cemetery at Ely, by the side of his old friends, Dean Peacock and William Selwyn. Epitaph on the monument in Ely Cathedral, by Rev. H. M. Butler, D.D., Master of Trinity. IN MEMORY OF CHARLES MERIVALE, D.D., D.C.L., HISTORIAN OF THE ROMANS UNDER THE EMPIRE, AND FOR TWENTY-FOUR YEARS DEAN OF THIS CATHEDRAL CHURCH. SPRUNG FROM A FAMILY OF SCHOLARS, HIMSELF RICH IN LEARNING, CAUSTIC IN WIT, JUST, WISE, TENDER, MAGNANIMOUS, HE WON AT EACH STAGE OF A LONG AND TRANQUIL LIFE HONOUR, CONFIDENCE, AND LOVE. APPENDIX LIST OF FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE STILL LIVING AND OVER 80 YEARS OF AGE IN DECEMBER, 1891. Rev. Frederick Reade. Rev. T. Overton. Hon, and Rev. A. Phipps. Canon Heaviside. Frederick Tennyson. Miss Maria Gore Browne. Miss Madelon Turner. Mrs. John Frere. Mrs. J. C. Wright. Mrs. Fanny Kemble. Mrs. Edward Bowyer Sparke. Miss Anna Orde. Mrs. Duthy. Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Baring Young. J. Toogood. Lord Verulam. Sir G. Prevost. Samuel Henry Thompson. Fenn, Lady, 109. | Harcourt, Sir W. Vernon, 220. | Longman, W., 137, 195, 208, Fitzgerald, Edward, 183, 315, Hardinge, Lord, 276. Irving, Edward, 128, 237. Jacobson, Bishop, 321. Jelf, Dr., 197, 198, 199, 200, 201. Marlborough, Duke of, 203. Martin, Dr., 90. Rich ard, 36. Johnson, President, 255, 262. Martineau, A., 97. Kant, 80. Harriet, 207. Mathew, Father, 145. Maurice, Rev. F. D., 81, 151, Garden, Dean, 81, 131, 244, 349. Katencamp, Ann (Mrs. John McDougall, Bishop, 307. Garnier, Dean, 72, 102. George III, 88, 356. 253. Gladstone, W. E., 149, 192, Letters from, 281, 282. Merivale). - Herman, 14. Kean, Charles, 18, 134, 209. Kemble, Charles, 54. - Fanny, 107, 122, 322, 323, 333. Goodwin, Bishop Harvey, 283, -Letter to, 356. 326, 329. Gordon, General, 351. - Miss, 358. Lake, Dean, 237, 286. - Letters to, 328, 334, 337, 342, Sir Henry, 50, 218. Grote, George, 212, 215, 239, 296. Lestrange, Mr., 308. Robert 42. Guizot, 208, 212, 344. Lewes, George, 220. Lewis, Sir G. Cornewall, 242, Hallam, A. H., 81, 110, 130, 134, Lightfoot, Bishop, 339. Melbourne, Nord, 154, 355. --- - - Charles, junior, Letters Charles Herman, 324, 343, |