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signature: Biarrits, Pyrenees, France, 27th September, 1878. My Dear Sir,—Your two letters of 27th August and 6th September followed me here from London, and I have since received a cheque for seventeen guineas from the National Bank of New York, in payment of the amount advanced to you, all which is quite in order. I am glad to hear of your safe return home, and trust you will never in future fall into the hands of the Philistines again. Yours very truly, J. P. Benjamin. C. A. Richardson, Esq., Staunton, Va. After our last meeting in August, 1878, I only saw occasional notices of the great lawyer in some of the English papers, and from time to time they mentioned his declining health. I felt sad when I heard of his death in Paris, May 6, 1884, in the 72d year of his age. He was one of the gifted sons of the South when the Southland held the ruling power of intellect in the national councils—the peer of any man then on the floor of the United States Senate. Th