I had always held him in awe as the greatest and wisest man within my knowledge, and should have no more have thought of familiar conversation with him than with the Pope.

But his grave and kindly courtesy, as he sat down with me after supper, though it did not quite put me at my ease, gave me courage to talk more freely than I had ever thought possible; and while my veneration for him was not diminished, I felt that there was no one now on earth that I need be afraid of.
Faithfully yours, J.EVARTS GREENE.
The Hon.Geo.

F.Hoar.
The following letter is from Professor Thatcher, the eminent Latin Professor of Yale: NEW HAVEN, 14th March, 1884.
HONORABLE GEORGE F.HOAR.
_My dear Senator:_ I write simply but cordially to thank you for the copy of your venerated Father's Memoir which you have been so kind as to send to your cousin, Elizabeth.

I have read it with the delight which must be common to all who read it.

A life so qualified with the selectest traits of a great and gentle soul, so substantial with continual but full and unembarrassed labor, and so constantly influential for elevated and beneficent ends, with nothing discoverable in it to check its great drift and power,--such a life is an almost unequalled gift of God to such a community as his.