Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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evening of the I 5th she entertained a happy assem blage in her house; on the I7th she received the
members and guests of the Nineteenth Century Club
at their rooms, she being one of the directresses. On
this evening she took a severe cold, which rapidly
developed into pneumonia. She died suddenly, and
almost painlessly, on the first hour of the 23d. This
brief illness was in accordance with a wish she had
often expressed.
The announcement of her death was received with
universal expressions of grief, and brought many
messages of sympathy and condolence to her griefstricken husband from friends in different cities in
this country and in Europe; among which may be
mentioned those of King Humbert and Queen Margherita. The funeral service was held in her parlors
on the 2 5th; and in accordance with her wish, there
was no display. The closed casket, containing all
that remained of this noble woman, was surrounded
by a few friends,- no flowers, no music, and only a
short service by the attending clergyman. Then the
remains were taken to their final resting-place in
Woodlawn Cemetery, accompanied by a few sorrowing ones, who saw her laid by the side of her
mother under the turf among plants and flowers.
A beautiful tree, the emblem of terrestrial existence,
overshadows the spot, which is marked by a tall
granite shaft, the symbol of that ever-ascending celestial life, of which, while here, she delighted in
thinking as the possibility of the progressive future.
"Ad altiora" should be inscribed on her monument
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