Sister Augustine : Superior of the Sisters of Charity at the St. Johannis Hospital at Bonn

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I PRINCETON, N. J. Y ur I R nv : SISTER AUGUSTINE

Per ROK OF THE SISTERS: OF CHARITY

AT THE poem OR ANNES: HOSPIVAL AL POs N N

Author's Preface

DURING the years that have elapsed since the death of the subject of this Memoir, I have been careful to collect from all quarters materials for the record of her life and work, which I now offer to the public. I have been much assisted by the kindness of the late Frau M. Boisserée, the late Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, Professor Busch, Canon Holzer, Herr Hubert von Lasaulx, Fraulein M. Potter, Professor Reusch, and the families of the late Professor Mendelssohn and the late Professor Perthes, all of whom have furnished me with letters and other valuable documents.

The facts which I have collected since the publication of the original German editions of these Memoirs (January and June, 1878) I have now added. to the English translation, which as a biography has the advantage of being more complete. I have, however, shortened the Introduction, which treats of the family history, and is therefore of but little special interest to the English reader.

viil . AUTHOR’S PREFACE.

This biography has been written in consequence of a promise given to the Superior that after her death I would see that her memory was not forgotten. I give it to the public, in the hope that the remembrance of the beloved and respected, Superior may be preserved.

Bonn, April, 1880.