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His family had been made refugees three different 

 times, and Maury had been much concerned over their 

 needs and probable sufferings. He wrote in the summer 

 of 1864 to Dr. Tremlett from the Duke of Buckingham's 

 palace at Stow, *'I had a letter to-day of May 7th from 

 my daughter Nannie, and she says, 'Flour has gone to 

 $100 per barrel — too high for us — but meal is cheaper, 

 thank God !' . . . *We had for dinner to-day soup made 

 out of nothing, and afterwards a shin. *Twas good, I 

 tell you ; we all dote on shins'. And again, from my little 

 Lucy, 'Ham and mashed potatoes to-day for dinner; and, 

 as it was my birthday (9th May), Mamma said I might 

 eat as much as I wanted'. Here, you see, there is no 

 complaining, but only a gentle lifting of the curtain, 

 which in their devotion and solicitude they have kept 

 so closely drawn before me. With this pitiful picture 

 in my mind's eye, I felt as if I must choke with the 

 sumptuous viands set before me on the Duke's table. 

 Alas, my little innocents!" 



So it was with a heavy heart and the future all dark 

 that he and his young son set sail, after an absence of 

 more than two years, for home, — the home which Maury 

 himself was not to see until several more years of exile 

 had been spent in foreign lands. 



