He retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form, and not less the full strength of his mind.

Such was, in old age, the beauty of his person and carriage, as if his mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders." He ends with this quatrain: With beams December planets dart, His cold eye truth and conduct scanned; July was in his sunny heart, October in his liberal hand.
The following is from a letter of Sherman Day, a man whose reputation for wisdom and integrity is among the treasures of California: "BERKELEY, 23d May, 1884.
HON.GEO.FRISBIE HOAR, U.S.Senate, Washington, D.C.
_My Dear Sir:_ "I was very much gratified to receive, some weeks since, a copy of your biographical sketch of your venerable father.
It was the more precious to me because it awakened memories of my own early life; while it recalls the tall, the gentle and dignified figure and courteous demeanor of your father in his prime of life.

I can remember being at your father's wedding at my grandmother's house when I was about 6-1/2 years old.

Several years before you were born, I was at the Phillips Academy at Andover, and used occasionally to spend a vacation with my beloved aunt, who was a sort of mother to me in my earliest childhood.

It was at her home that I first read Washington Irving's Sketch Book, then just appearing in separate numbers.