Mrs.
Dwight's health, and other circumstances, induced him to relinquish the
business of teaching; he visited the Southern States, was during several
sessions chaplain to the United States Senate, and, devoting himself to
literature, wrote an elaborate memoir of his great-grandfather, Jonathan
Edwards, and several works of less importance, one of which was "The
Hebrew Wife," written to illustrate the Jewish laws of marriage, and
published in New-York in 1836.

The death of his wife, and increasing physical infirmities, led him to
adopt a habit of the utmost seclusion in New-York, where he passed
nearly all the residue of his life. His last appearance in public was in
the summer of 1848, when he consented to act with Mr. John R. Bartlett
(now the chief of the Mexican Boundary Commission) and the writer of
these paragraphs, as an examiner of one of the departments of the
Rutgers Female Institute. He died suddenly, while upon a visit to
Philadelphia for the purpose of trying the effect of the hydropathic
treatment of his disease, on the 30th of September. In the _Home
Journal_ of December 14, Mr. Willis says of him:--

"In the death of this excellent man we have lost a friend,
whose loss to ourself we most sincerely mourn, though the grave
was, to him, a welcome relief from an insufferable disease,
that had made life wretched for years. Mr. Dwight was the son
of Rev. Dr. Dwight, President of Yale College. He became pastor
of Park-st. church, in Boston, while we attended it in boyhood,
and it is our pride to record that we were so fortunate as to
secure his friendship at that time, and to retain it, in
undiminished warmth and kindness, to the day of his death. Mr.
Dwight was a man of qualities unusual in his profession. When
he first came to Boston, in perfect health, he was, in personal
appearance, the ideal of a high-souled and faultlessly elegant
gentleman--with more of manly and refined beauty, indeed, than
we remember to have combined in any other man. He wore these
winning gifts most unconsciously, being beloved by the humblest
for his open and accessible simplicity and kindness: and his
health first gave way under the laborious discharge of his
parochial duties. He was too severely critical and polished a
scholar to be either a very eloquent preacher or an easy
writer, but his sermons were models of purity of style,