But he did not find any congenial associates in the men in New York who had any capacity to effect much good.

His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
I never maintained any considerable intimacy with Curtis, although I have a few letters from him, expressing his regard for some of my kindred or his interest and sympathy in something I had said or done.

These I value exceedingly.

One of the very last articles he wrote for _Harper's Weekly,_ written just before his death, contains a far too kind estimate of my public service.
The Concord quality has come down with its people from the first settlement.

The town was founded by Peter Bulkeley.
He was a clergyman at Odell in Bedfordshire, where the church over which he was settled is still standing.