In truth, the two months after my mother's death were the dreariest my life has known, and they were months of tolerably hard struggle.

The little house in Colby Road taxed my slender resources heavily, and the search for work was not yet successful.

I do not know how I should have managed but for the help ever at hand, of Mr.and Mrs.Thomas Scott.

During this time I wrote for Mr.Scott pamphlets on Inspiration, Atonement, Mediation and Salvation, Eternal Torture, Religious Education of Children, Natural _v_.

Revealed Religion, and the few guineas thus earned were very valuable.