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I saw them executed on the twenty-eighth day of Jan'y, 1816. The facts I received from the Rev. Patrick Davidson of Frederick, who constantly visited them during their imprisonment and who became an abolitionist in consequence of the disclosures which he heard from those men in the jail.
The entire lack of pageantry and circumstance which attended these journeyings of his is nowhere more gaily revealed than in the following letter to his wife, which is now published for the first time through the kindness of Mr. Beveridge: Rawleigh, Jan'y. 2d, 1803. My Dearest Polly You will laugh at my vexation when you hear the various calamities that have befallen me.
The coolness referred to between himself and Robinson and Talfourd, Procter said, was also a fiction invented by Lamb to carry out his legal mystification. "Jan'y 19, 1829. "My Dear Procter, I am ashamed to have not taken the drift of your pleasant letter, which I find to have been pure invention. But jokes are not suspected in Boeotian Enfield.
The appended letter is photographed from the original reply addressed to the president of our company, which was received March 9, 1899. Flagship Olympia Manila, Jan'y 28/99 Dear Sir, Very truly George Dewey We also sent a copy to His Royal Highness, Albert, Prince of Wales, and, having heard nothing from him, it now looks as though Al were going to snob us.
Slafter in his genealogy of the Hazen family says that William Hazen had sixteen children; possibly he may have omitted some who died in infancy for Judge Edward Winslow writes on Jan'y 17th, 1793, to a friend at Halifax, "My two annual comforts, a child and a fit of the gout, return invariably. They came together this heat and, as Forrest used to say, made me as happy as if the Devil had me.
This seemed well recommended, even if the name of the author hadn't been a strong recommendation in itself. A faded legend on a fly-leaf showed that the book had been "Presented to Edward Rogers, on his Fourteenth Birthday, Jan'y 21st, 1852, By his Uncle Daniel." I took that book back to the kitchen. The Professor had a lamp burning on the table beside him, and I sat down in its light.
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