There is now, alas! no possibility of the anticipation, with
which the above Epistle concludes, being realised: nor were the
verses ever seen by the Individual for whom they were intended.
She accompanied her husband, the Rev. Wm. Fletcher, to India, and
died of cholera, at the age of thirty-two or thirty-three years,
on her way from Shalapore to Bombay, deeply lamented by all who
knew her.
Her enthusiasm was ardent, her piety steadfast; and her great
talents would have enabled her to be eminently useful in the
difficult path of life to which she had been called. The opinion
she entertained of her own performances, given to the world under
her maiden name, Jewsbury, was modest and humble, and, indeed, far
below their merits; as is often the case with those who are making
trial of their powers, with a hope to discover what they are best
fitted for. In one quality, viz. quickness in the motions of her
mind, she had, within the range of the Author's acquaintance, no
equal.