484 MAN OF SCIENCE. 



The excitement occasioned by the event throughout 

 Scotland was tremendous, and no such funeral had taken 

 place in Edinburgh since that of Chalmers. He was laid 

 in the Grange cemetery, near the spot where Chalmers 

 rests. 



' From a large number of letters received by Mrs 

 Miller on the occasion of her husband's death, the three 

 which follow are selected for publication. 



' Tavistock House, London, Thursday, April 16th, 1857. 



1 DEAR MADAM, 



' Allow me to assure you that I have received 

 the last work of your late much-lamented husband with 

 feelings of mournful respect for his memory and of 

 heartfelt sympathy with you. It touches me very 

 sensibly to know, from the inscription appended to the 

 volume, that he wished it to be given to me. Believe 

 me, it will fill no neglected place on my book-shelves, 

 but will always be precious to me, in remembrance of a 

 delightful writer, an accomplished follower of science, 

 and an upright and good man. 



* I hope I may, dear Madam, without obtrusion on 

 your great bereavement, venture to offer you my thanks 

 and condolences, and to add that, before I was brought 

 into this personal association with your late husband's 

 final labour, I was one of the many thousands whose 

 thoughts had been much with you. 



1 Yours faithfully and obliged, 



1 CHARLES DICKENS/ 

 MRS HUGH MILLER. 



' Chelsea, April 15th, 1857. 



' MY DEAR MADAM, 



' Last night I received a Gift of your sending, 

 which is at once very precious and very mournful to me! 



