Your devoted niece will sorely feel this, but it will be to her a new incentive in the performance of those loving duties to which she has so willingly devoted her heart and mind .-- Believe me always your affectionate friend, W.E.
GLADSTONE.
Rev.D.T.K.

DRUMMOND to DEAN RAMSAY.
Montpelier, Thursday.
My dear Friend--I did not like to intrude on you in the very freshness of your home sorrow.

But you know how much I loved and respected your brother, and how truly and heartily I sympathise with you.

There were few in Edinburgh so much beloved as Sir William, and it will be long indeed ere the memory of his goodness shall pass away.

Such men in the quiet, private, and unassuming walk, are often much more missed and more extensively lamented than men who have been more in the eye of the public, and during their life have had much of public observation and favour.