LETTERS

OF

MRS GRAHAM.

OF THE LATE

MRS ISABELLA GRAHAM

OF NEW YORK,

IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEADING EVENTS
OF HER LIFE.

BY HER NEPHEW,

THE REV. JAMES MARSHALL,

MINISTER OF THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH, EDINBURGH.

A Father to the fatherless, and a Judge of the widow, is
God in his holy habitation.

Psalm lxviii. 5.

EDINBURGH:

JOHN LINDSAY & CO., ST ANDREW STREET;

M. OGLE & SON, AND D. BRYCE, GLASGOW;

HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., AND JAMES NISBET & CO.,

LONDON.

MDCCCXXXIX.

426.

LLI

PRINTED BY NEILL & CO. OLD FISHMARKET, EDINBURGH.

PREFACE.

MANY of the letters contained in this volume were lately published by Mrs Bethune of New York. On perusing them, I felt convinced their interest and usefulness would be increased by presenting them in connection with the leading incidents to which they refer; that while additional light will thus be thrown upon the scope and import of the letters, new interest will also be given to the events of a life already occupying an important place in Christian Biography. Besides, having access to many letters of Mrs Graham, addressed to her friends and relatives in this country, not only equal in excellence to her writings already published, but supplying many important links in the chain of autobiographical narration presented in the following pages, I felt it would be wrong to