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May I in conclusion be allowed to add that the 

 letters already referred to, and the generous tributes 

 to my husband's work and memory which appeared 

 in so many of the daily and weekly papers at the 

 time of his death, gave the greatest possible consola- 

 tion to all who loved him. In the following pages 

 I have borrowed freely from both these sources, and 

 here tender my heartfelt thanks to those writers to 

 whom I am thereby so deeply indebted. 



EDITH CORNISH. 



EYOT VILLA, 

 CHISWICK MALL, October 1906. 



