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enable me in becoming terms to acknowledge the high honor you have paid to his memory, and to the feeling of his bereaved family, by permitting them to peruse, so just an appreciation of his character, handed down to posterity, in “Blackwoods Magazine” — The few copies, you mention, as having struck off seperately, I should much like to have, for the purpose you mention — the attendant expence, you will permit my settling in Paternoster Row — I have at word received a full and particular account of his sudden death, from Captain Cathcart, from St Louis — wither, he immediately ‘Expressed’ on hearing the sad event had occurred —

Captain Cathcart writes under feeling of word & just at having left him, which he been induced to do at his