John Leech and other papers

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thoroughfare of Dundee, which is still, we believe,
pointed out to strangers as the place where the
authoress of the Mystifications first saw the light.
Her life may almost be said to have been one long
summer day, not without its clouds, but on the
whole happy, delightful, and beneficent in no
ordinary degree. Few have left the world so
regarded with immediate, unmixed, and deserved
affection, and fewer still have retained to the last,
as she did, the pure fresh unblunted attachments
of childhood to their friends. Dying at ninety-five,
she was as gay and truthful and artless as a girl,
with all the serious and 'thoughtful breath' that
becomes a 'traveller between life and death.'
Always full of benevolence and public spirit, one
of the earliest manifestations of this was some time
ago amusingly told by an old Forfarshire farmer
whom a friend of ours happened to fall in with in
the neighbourhood of Dundee. When Dr. Jenner's
great discovery was first announced it immediately
attracted Miss Graham's interest and enthusiasm,
and long before the Faculty became alive to its
importance she used to ride about on her little
white pony vaccinating with a needle every child
whose birth she heard of in her neighbourhood.
We have been told that in this way she protected
from the terrible scourge of the smallpox not less
than about 300 infants. Our farmer friend had