een hurried
along, from place to place, and from scene to scene, so that I have
nothing very pleasing to detail to you of my journey. Since I have
been in this great city I have also been very closely engaged with my
business, and have visited, as yet, none of its wonders. We have tonight,
at the house where I am staying, a very large company, assembled
to celebrate the landing of the Puritans in New England. They had a
most splendid table, filled with every luxury; and they have Mr.
Webster, who is to make a speech to them. Mr. Choate delivered an
address to-day, in the Tabernacle. So, you see, we have grand doings.

"Well, I feel more happy up in my little room, away from the
noise and bustle, writing to my daughter, and thinking of her dear
mother and grandma, and cousin Eliza, and all that are so dear to us.
My dear, when I think how God has blessed you, and all of us, and when
I think how wicked we have been, what stubborn and disobedient children
we have all been, and how little we love that Saviour who has done so
much for us, I feel very much condemned. God would be just, if he
should at once punish us. We should be very prayerful, and pray
earnestly and continually, for a new heart and a right spirit, and that
we may all be truly converted, and fitted to serve Him with our whole
hearts."

His humility is plainly seen in this quotation, as it often was
in his prayers, when he seemed more like a little child, seeking his
Father's face, than an elder in the Church, conscious of setting an
example to the flock.

In the first letter your mother received from her father, in the
winter of 1846-7, after we were settled in Mobile, he says: "My dear
child, I hope, needs no hint to urge her in attention and kindness to a
mother whose happiness is so dependent upon her child. Your father,
immersed in the business of the world, and his feelings hardened by the
adverse and trying scenes which he is constantly called to breast, is
not so alive to, and dependent for happiness, as the mother is upon her
husband and child; and, in the absence of the former, the weightier
duties devolve on you, and I confidently feel that you will fulfil them
all cheerfully, and partake of the happiness their performance affords.
I pray that the Spirit of all Grace may impart to you all the strength
and grace you need, and that you may be guided to the Saviour, in whom
you will find fullness of joy, and a peace which passeth all
knowl