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tand above the contentions of the day; do not allow indiscreet friends to draw you out of your own course. Your record gives you a right to go where your inclinations lead you, and if your contemporaries don't like it, history will do you justice. Remember that a heart's trouble cannot be cured if every day you allow yourself to be exposed to the palpitations which excitement of necessity brings about. Ever truly your friend. Sumner, when off the Irish coast, wrote to E. L. Pierce, September 13:— The sea is to me always a nuisance. I shall not he content until it is all filled up, so that I can always travel on dry ground. Though in constant peril of nausea and with very little comfort, I have had relief in my heart-pains and the cerebral pressure, and am looking forward to delight in pictures at London and Paris; but the thought of the return voyage in November haunts me. I am haunted more by the thought of the wrong and ingratitude erased. which I have received from i