He had not attained that stoutness which his form assumed in later years.

I could illustrate his appearance better to your brother, Edward, by asking him to recall Don Pablo de la Guerra of Santa Barbara, whom I deemed a very good type, _in appearance,_ of Webster in the Convention of 1820." George William Curtis came to know Mr.Hoar very well during his own life in Concord.

He and his brother, Burrill, were almost daily visitors at our house: WEST NEW BRIGHTON, STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., March 19, 1884.
_My dear Mr.Hoar:_ I thank you very much for a copy of your sketch of your father which vividly recalls him to me as I remember him in my Concord days long ago.

I recollect that when I saw in Paris Couture's famous picture of the Decadence of the Romans, it was your father that I thought of as I saw the figures of the older Romans gazing reproachfully upon the revels.

So he may have felt of his country as he died.
With great regard, very truly yours, GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
The following is from J.Evarts Greene, formerly editor of the Worcester _Spy,_ and one of the ablest members of his profession in New England: WORCESTER, Mar.