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all my best hopes regarding him were being more and more realized. After a long interval of 

 many years I had the satisfaction of renewing my acquaintance with liim, shortly after his 

 accession to the Marquisate, and had frequent conversations with him, from which I was much 

 gratified to observe the deep interest he felt in all good objects, such as the circulation of the 

 Bible ; so that in his case it might be truly said that ' the child was the father of the man.' 



"JOHN THOMSON, D.D." 



•' True St. George's Manse, Paisley, 

 3l8t March, 1880." 



