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his face more deeply furrowed, than those pictures repre- 

 sent. 



Mr. Baldwin took me to the house of the Secretary of 

 State, Mr. Clayton, and I was received with the warmest 

 cordiality. Mr. Clayton was, in Yale College, a brilliant 

 scholar, and an elegant and beautiful young man, and I 

 had never seen him since that period, thirty-five years 

 ago. His youthful form, light and graceful, is now enlarged 

 to that of a very portly man, and his hair is of snowy 

 whiteness. As he gave me his hand with a friendly grasp, 

 he said : " I should have known you, but you would not 

 have known me." I replied, that I might have passed him 

 in the street without recognition, but that I could now 

 recall his youthful features, his voice, manner, and ac- 

 tion. He expressed very great pleasure at meeting me, 

 and said he had always retained me in grateful remem- 

 brance ; that he had attended my lectures " with admiration 

 and delight " ; and he earnestly pressed me to prolong my 



visit Mr. Clayton expressed great interest in 



Yale College and its older officers. I reminded him of 

 the approaching termination of the third semi-centennial 

 period of the College, and invited him to be present, as 

 there would be some special commemoration ; he almost 

 engaged to be present and to speak on the occasion. 



Shortly after his return from Washington, he had 

 occasion to record his reflections upon the death of a 

 distinguished statesman, once his pupil. 



Sabbath Morning, April 7. John C. Calhoun died at 

 Washington last Sabbath morning, calm, and in perfect 

 possession of his reason. No remark is quoted regarding 

 his soul and his prospects for another life. I have known 

 him from his youth up. I first became acquainted with 

 him at Newport, Rhode Island, when he was a youth pre- 

 paring for College. I think it must have been about the 



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