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He was nearly forgotten, in spite of a well-written Life by President Felton, in Sparks's Collection, until a short time since; when he was placed before the public in a somewhat melodramatic attitude, by an article in a New York pictorial monthly. It is not easy to explain this neglect.
Bennoch has been making an admirable speech, in moving to present the thanks of the city to Mr. Layard. How one likes to feel proud of one's friends! God bless you! Ever most faithfully yours, M.R.M. Kind Mrs. Sparks's biscuits arrived quite safe. How droll some of the cookery is in "The Wide, Wide World"! It would try English stomachs by its over-richness.
He is mentioned, in the correspondence of Mr. V. SUTTON, born 1686; and died in November, 1693. VIII. FRANCES-CHARLOTTE ... Married the Marquis de Bellegarde, a Savoyard. To a son of this union is a letter of General Washington, dated January 15, 1790, in the 9th volume of Sparks's Writings of Washington, p. 70. IX. MARY, who died single.
His notes are always such as an intelligent reader would desire, and they usually contain all the information needed for a perfect understanding of the matter in hand. Dr. Sparks's edition is a monument at once to the memory of Benjamin Franklin and to his own diligence, tact, and faithfulness."
Jefferson's Memoirs and Correspondence, iii., 336. Sparks's "Life and Writings of Washington," xi., 137. In a note to this letter, Mr. Sparks says: "No correspondence, after this date, between Washington and Jefferson appears in the letter-books, except a brief note the month following, upon an unimportant matter.
It was at this point that he replied to Mr Sparks's knock. "Come in, Mr Sparks, you've heard of your poor brother-in-law's accident, I suppose?" "Yes, I've just comed from his house with a message. You're wanted to be there in good time." "All right, I'll be up to time," said Joe, putting on his coat and cap, and smiling to his wife, as he added, "It's a queer sort o' thing to do.
"Then give me your hand," said the major, as he shook Sparks's with a warmth of whose sincerity there could be no question. "Bess, my love," said he, addressing his wife. The remainder was lost in a whisper; but whatever it was, it evidently redounded to Sparks's credit, for the next moment a repetition of the hand-shaking took place, and Sparks looked the happiest of men.
A selection from Washington's replies to these addresses may be found in the twelfth volume of Sparks' "Life and Writings of Washington." For a notice of a general plan of a military academy at West Point, prepared by Washington, see Sparks's "Life and Writings of Washington," viii., 417.
Extracts will be found in Professor Bowen's Life of Phips, in Sparks's American Biography, VII. There is also an order of council, "Whereas the French soldiers lately brought to this place from Port Royal did surrender on capitulation," they shall be set at liberty. Meneval, Lettre au Ministre, 29 Mai, 1690, says that there was a capitulation, and that Phips broke it.
This will relieve you of that portion of attention which his education would otherwise call for." Mount Vernon and its Associations, pages 264, 265. The Life of Thomas Jefferson, by Henry S. Randall, LL.D., ii, 128. Sparks's Washington, x, 533, 534. The following is copy of the proclamation:
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