“I have every reason to remember her with tender regard, and to deeply regret her loss. From the fact that I was motherless, she took an especial interest in my studies and health, making my father and myself deeply grateful to her. I more than ever feel what a friend I have lost. Camden Town is very lonely without her.” Mrs. Marks continues— “And then the general impression of geniality and life which was always so conspicuous! She was so _warm_, everything about her was _infused with warmth_. There was no cold impersonality in any of her thoughts. They were all alive. I need not say how kind she was.” This kindness was all-inclusive, going down to the least as well as rising to the highest. Among the hundreds of letters of condolence received by Miss Buss’ family was one from the firm which undertook the charge of the school clocks, speaking strongly of the kind and gracious way in which their _employés_ had always been treated. And there is a characteristic story of her in connection with her old cabman Downes, who drove her, year after year, to school and to church. On one occasion, hurrying to catch the train to Cambridge, Downes upset his cab, and Miss Buss was extricated without having time to decide whether she was hurt or not, her business being too important to admit of delay. Her first act on reaching her destination was to telegraph to Downes to assure him that she was not hurt. All records go to show how lasting was her interest in all who made any claim on her, confirming the words of another of her staff, when she says, “Girls, as soon as they left school, felt that they had a friend ever ready to sympathize with them in sorrow or in joy. A happy marriage was a delight to her”—a remark confirmed by a passage in one of Miss Buss’ letters, where she says, “I wish Ada would bring Mr. Z—— to Myra. I like to see my _sons-in-law_. He cannot be shyer than Mr. Q——.” Here is a note just after the opening of the new buildings by the Prince and Princess of Wales, written for the wedding-day of one of her pupils— “DEAR MARY, “Just a line to express my love and good wishes for you and yours to-morrow. “May God bless you in your new state of life! I shall be with you in spirit, and think of you all. “I hope you have received the little tea-table. The mats for it have been delivered I know, but I am not sure about the table. “I hope Eleanor will send me a short note to say where you have gone, and to give me some account of to-morrow’s ceremony. “With my dear love and good wishes, “Believe me, yours affectionately, “FRANCES M. BUSS.” To “meet the glad with joyful smiles” would always have been easy to her, but she was more often called “to wipe the weeping eyes;” for the words of another of the recent pupils was curiously true—