The flax thus spun was afterwards wove, bleached, and
made into table-cloths and towels for family use.

Mrs. Graham used to remark, that until some institution should be
formed to furnish employment for industrious poor women, the work of
charity would be incomplete. It was about this time that, deeming the
duties too laborious for her health, she resigned the office of first
directress of the Widows' Society, and took the place of a manager.
She afterwards declined this also, and became a trustee of the Orphan
Asylum Society, as more suited to her advanced period of life.

The lady to whom the following letter was addressed was Miss
FARQUHARSON, a person of genuine piety and worth, whom Mrs. Graham had
educated and prepared to become her assistant in teaching. When Mrs.
Graham retired from her school, Miss Farquharson declined to succeed
her, preferring to accompany and enjoy the society of her patroness
and friend. Until 1804 she proved as efficient an assistant to Mrs.
Graham in her charitable labors in the Widows' Society and
Sabbath-school, as she had been in her boarding-school.

During the prevalence of the yellow-fever in 1804, she was called
to attend her own dying mother, and underwent so much fatigue, that on
her return to Mrs. Graham she broke a bloodvessel, and for four months
was confined to her room, during all which time Mrs. Graham attended
her night and day. Her medical attendants prescribed a long voyage and
residence in a hot climate as the only means of saving her life. About
that time Mr. Andrew Smith was preparing to sail for the East Indies
with his family, by the way of England. With them she embarked. She
sojourned several weeks in Birmingham, and there the circumstances
commenced which eventually led Miss Farquharson to become a
missionary's wife, and the first American missionary to foreign lands.
Her history has been published by Rev. Mr. Knill, in a tract entitled,
"The Missionary's Wife."

The London Missionary Society were preparing to establish a
mission in the idolatrous city of Surat, but the East India Company
would not allow Christian missionaries to sail in their ships. The
Society thankfully availed themselves of the privilege of sending Mr.
Loveless and Dr. Taylor in the American ship Alleghany. They arrived
in Madras, June, 1805.

During the voyage an attachment was formed between Mr. Loveless
and Miss Farquharson which death only could sever, and i