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diaries. The Secretary quoted Philip's letter, and said that 

 the petty persecutions which he described were still going 

 on. But beyond the expression of a hope that the Govern- 

 ment of the Dominion might find it possible to settle the 

 question amicably, her Majesty's Government could not inter- 

 fere. 



In 1876 Philip's letters show that he felt increasingly the 

 fatigue of his school. After his death his friend Mr. T. Mould- 

 ing, of Chicago, wrote to Mrs. R. Gaskell : " At the close of 

 school, last year, I found him completely tired out. So much 

 so, that it was a great task for him to speak to me until a rest 

 of all night, and a great part of the next day, Sunday. Then 

 he invited me to take a walk, and we walked up the Mountain, 

 lying down to rest now and again : your dear brother pointing 

 out the grand mountain chains, telling me their names, history, 

 etc., and also showing me the beautiful city : and then we 

 talked of the olden time, of our good school [at Warrington], 

 of the good work done, of you and your share in it, of your 

 dear sister and her lifetime of philanthropy : and then we sat 

 midway on the Mountain, less than half an hour's walk from 

 the house, and never thought of the time or the darkness, until 

 a policeman came up and said, i Do you know the rules, that 

 no one should be on the Mountain after nine?' And we were 

 surprised to find it was nearly ten. Just as it was in Warring- 

 ton, so in Montreal, everybody seemed to know my dearest 

 friend, and everybody loved him. Brewers, Catholics, and 

 even the French Canadians who opposed vaccination and 

 sanitary reform, respected him, and would listen patiently to 

 his teaching. Next day I could not induce him to take a rest : 

 so I went with him to the College, and we talked of the 

 future." 



A few days after, Philip wrote a long letter to the Chairman 

 of the Health Committee, who had informed him that a 

 majority of the aldermen wished to remove the Small-pox 

 Hospital from the side of the Mountain to a disused burying- 

 ground on Papineau Road ! He pointed out the danger from 

 miasma, even if no foundations were sunk, and sheds only 



