13, 1884.
_Dear Hoar:_ Thank you very much for your memoir of your father.

I was in Washington the day he and your sister came home from Charleston.
I remember that Grinnell told me the news--and my first real feeling _in life_ that there must be a war, was when Grinnell said on the Avenue: "I do not know but we may as well head the thing off now--and fight it out." The first public intelligence the North had of the matter was in my letter to the _Daily Advertiser,_ which was reprinted in New York, their own correspondents not knowing of the expulsion.
Always yours, EDW.

E.HALE.
I have Dr.Vedder's permission to publish the accompanying correspondence, which so happily turns into a means of delightful reconciliation what has been so long, but can be no longer, a painful memory.

I was received in Charleston with the delightful hospitality of which no other people in the world so fully understand the secret.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct.

20, 1898.
THE HONORABLE GEORGE F.HOAR.
_Dear Sir:_ We have a New England Society in Charleston which is now seventy- six years old.