400 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1870. as you describe.' His last surviving correspondent was 

 the Rev. W. Heald, who died three years after him. All 

 his other old University friends had gone before. 



I iiave, with respect to domestic matters and details, 

 done what I know iny husband himself would have wished, 

 for he never liked making known what nearly concerned 

 his family. Moreover, those to whom he wrote at length 

 and on questions of general interest were friends with 

 whom he did not get frequent opportunities of conversa- 

 tion. Consequently, as we were almost always together, 

 his correspondence with myself and our sons and daughters 

 was fragmentary, and not suited for publication. I trust, 

 however, that the foregoing selections will not be thought 

 insufficient to show the character of one to whom letter- 

 writing was a pleasure and a relaxation, and among 

 whose leisure occupations it always held so prominent a 

 place. S. E. DE M.) 



