There were some persons in the classes near mine, both below and above me, with whom I had an acquaintance in college which grew into a cordial friendship in the Law School or in later life.

Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
He went to California and became afterward unquestionably the greatest lawyer they have ever had on the Pacific Coast.
He was in the class after mine.

I knew him slightly in our undergraduate days.

But when I went to the Law School in September, 1847, we boarded together in the same house.

We speedily became intimate and used to take long walks together of three or four hours every day.