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90 BIOGRAPHY.
to her bed. It was therefore out of the question to remove
her that summer to Arsta, and consequently Fredrika re-
mained in town in order to keep her company and to nurse
her. Her illness, with an occasional temporary improve-
ment, lasted two years, until the 2d of March, 1855, when
my mother, after much suffering, borne with Christian
resignation, departed to a better life.
Fredrika, who was never slow in rendering assistance,
whenever she had it in her power, devoted to the promo-
tion of charitable undertakings of greater extent, both her
personal activity and the power which she possessed of
deeply touching with her words all human hearts, when
she wished to move them to alleviate the distress of the
suffering.
When, in the summer of 1853, the cholera broke out in
Stockholm, Fredrika joined a society of noble-hearted
women, whose president she became, and whose aim it was
to take charge of, and procure a home for, those children
who had lost their parents by this epidemic, and to render
assistance to those poor families in which either the father
or the mother had died and left children.
She published in the newspapers an invitation to a sub-
scription for the benefit of these children and families, and
had the satisfaction of seeing the money thus collected
amount to Rg. 26,000, besides contributions which were
promised to be continued for several years. It was ar-
ranged for the orphans that the society should take the
entire charge of them, until they had been confirmed, and
a place had been procured for them.
In the winter of 1855, Fredrika placed herself at the
head of a small association of ladies, whose object it was
to visit the prisons of the metropolis. This object was ex-
ceedingly good, and I hope that, at all events, some of
those who had taken the first steps on the path of vice and
crime, and now in the cells of the prisons had leisure, in
silence and solitude, to meditate on what had been said to
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