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your letter this morning. It is so very short a time 

 since he was our guest, and my wife has a letter 

 from him dated only a few days ago. Yet this is 

 not the reason why your intelligence is so over- 

 whelming — excepting in so far as his visit enabled 

 me more than ever to appreciate the extraordinary 

 combination of learning, intellect, kindness, and 

 religion, where each was present in the highest 

 degree. For who was more learned ? Who more 

 intellectual ? more full of heart, or more charged 

 with the power of Christianity ? It appeared to me 

 that a nature thus endowed in greatest measure with 

 all the greatest attributes of humanity was really, in 

 respect of their combination, the most remarkable 

 man I ever met. And I am perfectly persuaded 

 that, had he lived for another twenty years, his 

 would have become the strongest voice in England 

 against the infidelity of our generation. 



Personally the loss is to me more than I can 

 compute. For not only have I lost a newly gained 

 friend, but one whose rich stores of knowledge and 

 of thought had just begun to open such large possi- 

 bilities in the way of adding to my own. But well 

 I know that this loss must be but small compared 

 with yours, whose longer and deeper friendship must 

 have brought into so much greater prominence the 

 void that has been left by a ' loveliness and gene- 

 rosity ' which are now no more. Therefore, I not 

 only grieve with you, but for you — and this with all 

 the sincerity of 



Your sincerely affectionate friend, 



Geo. J. Eomanes. 



