CHAPTER XIX 



"IN MEMORIAM" 



In memory of 

 Herbert Edward Wallace, 

 who died of yellow fever at Para, June 8, 185 1, 

 Age 22 years. 



During the three or four years my brother lived at Neath 

 he contributed a considerable number of verses and enigmas 

 to the local newspapers, while some of his old notebooks 

 contain many others in an unfinished state. While on the 

 Amazon he wrote several more, and I will here give a few 

 samples of these, which may perhaps be thought worth 

 preserving, and as a memento of a young life prematurely 

 closed in a distant land. He was a great admirer of Hood 

 and of Longfellow, and several of his little poems are reflec- 

 tions of their writings, while the enigmas were inspired by 

 those of William Mackworth Praed. 



The only two likenesses of my brother we possess are 

 copied here. The first is from a pencil sketch by an old 

 friend of the family (Miss Townsend), taken at Hoddesdon 

 when he was about eight years old, which was always con- 

 sidered a striking likeness. The other is a copy of a black 

 silhouette taken before he came out to the Amazon in 1849, 

 when he was just twenty years old. 



My lamented friend Dr. Spruce kindly sent me two letters 

 he received from my brother in the interval between our 

 parting at Santarem and his return to Para, and as they are 



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