were duly received.

I am very glad to learn that a Biography of Hon.

Adin Thayer is in process of preparation, and that the work is in such competent hands.
I reckoned him among my highly esteemed personal friends, and was painfully shocked by the news of his lamentable death.
I knew his grandfather before him, his father and mother, and the whole family connexion more or less intimately.

They were often attendant on my public ministrations, and I have been with them, during my long life, on many occasions of interest, joy and sorrow.

They have all been persons of strong common sense, downright honesty and solid worth.