Rebecca Jarrett / by Josephine E. Butler.

  • Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey, 1828-1906.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Rebecca Jarrett / by Josephine E. Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    spirits after some hours of depressing faintness and exhaustion through her self-imposed abstinence. With this standing before her, she prayed in an agony ; I watched her, prayed with her, and pleaded for her; and she conquered, and thrust it from her. This may seem a little thing to persons who have never been slaves to drink ; but it is not a small thing; it is a test of a real and desperate sincerity in one who has been a subject of that raging passion. The following little note was written to me by Rebecca in the Old Bailey, and passed along to me:— The Dock, November ]th. Dear Mrs. Butler, —I do thank you very much for your love and kindness to me during all this time of trouble ; and more especially for your confidence in me after all the terrible things you have heard said of me by the Prosecution in this Court. I am not at all flinching from the punishment which will be put upon me. God will be with me in prison, and with all of us. What we did was done for a good end; and God will stand by us all. But think of me ; pray for me. You know how unwilling I was to do all that; but I do not mind what people think of me. God knows all about it. Remember me very kindly to Canon Butler, and to all I know at Winchester—Miss Humbert, Mrs. Hillier, Mrs. Jones. My love and deepest gratitude to yourself and your sister, Mrs. Meuricofire. God bless you. From your Rebecca. 4