F.HOAR _Dear Sir_ Thanks for the "Memoir of Samuel Hoar, by his Son, George F.Hoar." For years the character of this true man, as a noble, courageous, self-sacrificing and independent American citizen has commanded my profound admiration and respect, and I am greatly pleased to become more familiar with his life.

Fortunately the facts of it need no ornamentation or partial painting by the Son, for the modesty of the latter would never have responded to any such necessity.
I am, Very truly, Yours, etc.
WM.

P.FRYE.
LEICESTER, March 13/84.
_Dear Mr.Hoar:_ I cannot too much thank you for sending me the memoir--tho' so brief and exceedingly temperate--of your father.
He was one of the few men who kept Massachusetts and New England from rushing down the steep place and perishing in the waters, as the herd of swine was doing,--a son worthy of the Fathers of New England.

I think of him as a kind of tall pillar, on a foundation of such granite solidity as to quiet all fears of possible moving therefrom.

He was an example--and became by his S.Carolina mission a conspicuous one; by his attitude and demeanor, opposing the whole moral power of the North to the despotic and insolent assumptions of Slavery.
Yours very truly, SAML MAY.
My father, in everything that related to his own conduct, was controlled by a more than Puritan austerity.