There is a rare charm in the narrative, and one cannot help rejoicing that you have been able to gather together the recorded judgments of so many men whose judgments are worthy to be recorded, I am, ever, Very truly yours, THOMAS A.THATCHER.
SENATE, WASHINGTON, March 9, 1884.
_My dear Mr.Hoar:_ I thank you very much for a copy of the Memoir of your father.
It is a tribute to his worth and fame worthy of him and of yourself.

I hardly know which most to admire, the character it portrays, or the filial piety it evinces.
It brings back very vividly the venerable form and the lovely character I met and revered in the Massachusetts Legislature when I was a young man, and have ever since held among the safest and best of the land.

Permit me to count it my own best fortune that I can subscribe myself the colleague and friend of the son and biographer of Samuel Hoar.
Truly yours, H.L.

DAWES.
The Honorable Geo.

F.Hoar, Senate.
HONORABLE GEO.