Fifty years after her death he still thinks of her, he says, with love and tenderness every day.

Late in his life his cousin Mrs.Anne Bodham recalled herself to his remembrance by sending him his mother's picture.

"Every creature," he writes, "that has any affinity to my mother is dear to me, and you, the daughter of her brother, are but one remove distant from her, I love you therefore, and love you much, both for her sake and for your own.

The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me.

I received it the night before last, and received it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had its dear original presented herself to my embraces.