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information of him during his illness, writing on each 
occasion as encouragingly as I could, in view of her 
evident solicitude. When requested by you to write 
an obituary notice of Mr, Seybert, I thought it proba- 
ble she could give me, in regard to his views on many 
subjects, information of interest to his American 
friends, and expressed in a letter to her the hope that 
it would be agreeable to her to do so. In reply, I re- 
ceived, in the month of June last, a letter from Madame 
de Saivre, from which I have copied and translated into 
English the following extract. It is impossible, I 
think, to read it carefully without coming to the con- 
clusion that the course of action of Mr. Seybert, dur- 
ing the last half of his life, is most correctly and satis- 
factorily explained by it. 
“During the long period (says Madame de Saivre) 
“of our acquaintance in France, he occupied himself, 
“ at first, a good deal in reading scientific works, and 
“attending lectures on History and Chemistry, but it 
“seemed to me even then that his principal vocation 
was in doing good. He aided the unfortunate and 
improvident in their efforts to recover themselves, 
“ and lead an honorable existence, and in order to en- 
“rich himself to promote this object, I know estab- 
“ lished several persons in America; often, also, I have 
“known that he was not repaid money advanced by 
‘‘him to persons who had profited of his confidence 
“and credulity, but were not in haste to repay the 
