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[321] dentist, its shapeliness was lost forever. This feature he derived from the Palmer side of his ancestry, and it was a mouth of extraordinary mobility, the despair of photographer, painter, and sculptor. Of the Jocelyn engraved1 likeness, a relative wrote (some fifty years after): “The features I believe to be nearly perfect, yet to me there is something lacking in it—the want of an expression which he always bore on his countenance when I knew him—an expression of sympathy or commiseration manifested by his lips in some way, doubtless better understood by you than I should be able to describe.” Ms. Sept. 27, 1880, Wm. A. Garrison to W. P. G. Circa 1840. Nothing could be truer than this suggestion of what was, in fact, indescribable. To this expression of the mouth,2 in harmony with the beaming eye, was due the wonderful benevolence and geniality of aspect which made my father so attractive—so bewitching, as he3 seemed to Miss Martineau. There were two other faces akin to his in the anti-slavery group—that of Samuel J. May, well called a benediction, and the brimming, soulful, angelic countenance of Mrs. Follen. To say that my father was worthy to be classed with either of these spiritual presences is to make a large, but not too large, claim for him.

His head was imposing not from its size, for it was very compact, but from its balanced parts, culminating in the bump—a visible bump—of firmness, humorously commemorated by Lowell, which was the opposite pole4 of the benignity residing in his face. Quincy has just

1 Ante, 1.344.

2 See, for the nearest approach to it ever made in portraiture, the frontispiece to the present volume.

3 Ante, 2.69-71.

4 Ante, 3.178.

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