In her retirement, in addition to
maintaining an extensive correspondence, she found time to prepare the
history of the mission in Burmah which was published in her name, in a
series of letters addressed to Mr. Butterworth, the gentleman beneath
whose roof she had been a guest during her residence in England. These
records, which were principally compiled from documents which had been
published before, contained the first continuous account of the Burman
mission ever given to the public. The work was widely read in England
and America, and received the favorable notice of several of the leading
organs of public criticism.

"The influence which she exerted in favor of the cause of missions
during her brief residence of eight or nine months in the United States,
it is hardly possible now to estimate. She enlisted more fully in the
cause not a few leading minds who have since rendered it signal service
both by eloquent vindications and by judicious counsels; and by the
appeals which she addressed to Christians of her own sex, and her fervid
conversations with persons of all classes and denominations in America,
as well as by the views which she submitted to the managers of the
mission, a new zeal for its prosecution was everywhere created, and the
missionary enterprise, instead of being regarded with doubt and
misgiving, as it had been by many, even among Christians, began to be
understood in its higher relations to all the hopes of man, and to be
contemplated in its true grandeur, and ennobling moral dignity."

Such is the opinion of her visit expressed by an elegant and enlightened
scholar, now that more than a quarter of a century has passed, bringing
triumph to the missionary cause, and honor to its first founders and
advocates; but such we regret to say was not the universal sentiment of
her contemporaries. Many persons well remember the unfounded stories put
in circulation respecting her, by some whose motives we will not inquire
into, as they would scarcely bear investigation, in regard to her
actions, her intentions, and even her apparel. As her biographer remarks
in introducing some of her letters at this period: "It was said that her
health was not seriously impaired, and that she visited the South with a
view to excite attention and applause. To persons who would put forth or
circulate such calumnies, a perusal of her letters, in which she utters
her feelings to her friends without reserve, will, it is hoped, mi