
          New York, Jany. 28, 1856

My Dear Sir,

I had intended to have
replied earlier to your very obliging letter
of the 17th inst. particularly to assure you
of my very deep sympathy, for probably
none can understand your sorrows better
than myself. Time alone can never assuage 
them in a sensitive mind. Constant
and useful employment will banish them
for the time; but when night comes we find
it powerless. We then take of the Bible,
and there, through the eye of faith, we
discover remedy of the most wonderful healing
virtues. This, however, I need not commend
        