xxxvi OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 



after that active brain was stilled, and that busy pen fallen from 

 his hand. A great amount of notes was made by him with the care- 

 ful thoroughness so characteristic of his studious preparation before 

 he began work on his final text, which was then subjected to fre- 

 quent revision before he would publish the result. 



The correspondence of Mr. Lea with public men and scholars 

 at home and abroad ought to throw much light on his intellectual 

 growth and development, and on the influence that he exercised 

 during his long and busy life. His singular modesty, his content- 

 ment in his own library and in his literary work, his absolute indif- 

 ference to public honors or recognition, made all the greater his 

 sacrifice of so much strength, and time, and labor, to public service, 

 to duty as a citizen. All the more is it important that there should 

 be a full and complete memorial to him, showing how he was trained 

 in early youth, developed into a busy man of affairs, active in a great 

 national crisis, earnest in advocating much needed reforms, and 

 crowned by the highest authority as a historical author of the fore- 

 most rank. 



Through all his lifetime of activity there ran a stream of con- 

 stant and wise philanthropy, a steady giving to all good causes, but 

 only after careful inquiry and investigation, and always without 

 ostentation or publicity. Of his personal traits one cannot but recall 

 his kindly gentle nature, his interest and sympathy in all who worked 

 in the same fields — history, public affairs, scientific research, philan- 

 thropic and educational projects. None of those who were thus 

 associated with him would ever have suspected from his modest 

 bearing that ]\Ir. Lea was a great scholar and historian, whose 

 works received the highest encomiums of great scholars and his- 

 torians at home and abroad. They in turn never heard from him 

 of the manifold public services he had rendered during his busy life. 

 Let us then pay tribute to his many remarkable achievements in all 

 his ])ursuits. 



There are examples of great historians whose memories have 

 been honored by making their libraries accessible to students. Our 

 American universities have many such libraries brought here and 

 made the shrines for the studious worshiji of successive generations 

 of scholars. Air. Carnegie made a gift of the lihrarv of Lord Acton 



