Selected Letters Edited by the REV. T. Chamberlain (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...took place between Frank and myself last summer, about securing a vacation retreat for himself and a party of Cambridge friends, --in the interval Henry had passed away, --to this and other things he touchingly alludes in one of his letters, in which he speaks of his dear brother as having " been taken away from what was to him latterly a world of so much suffering, to life eternal,"--words how strikingly applicable to his own approaching end " We little thought then," he says also, alluding to our meeting near Belmont, "that we were so soon to lose him." Alas how truly may we say of Frank, as he of Henry, that we little thought he too was so soon to be taken away. I little thought that the hand which penned that letter--to me his last--was so soon to be cold in death. But we shall meet again. It is gratifying to me to render this little tribute to the memory of two so admirable young men, my intercourse with whom was a very pleasing circumstance of my college life, and of whom I hope ever to cherish a tender and hallowed remembrance.' The waters of Vichy having been recommended for the invalid, the family were, in the beginning of June, on the point of starting for a summer in France, previous to settling, as was then anticipated, in the south of England: but their departure was delayed, Henry being attacked with a severe quinsy. His state was for many weeks so suffering and precarious, that Frank could not absent himself for distant rambles; his Herbarium was consequently the more limited, and he left Scotland some time before the period fixed for collecting it had expired; yet he succeeded, not only in attending the lectures every morning, at eight o'clock, in the Botanical Gardens--an hour's walk from Belmont--but also in co...