country; they will be identified with it, and will form an æra in the history of American literature. They are of too great value for the funds I brought with me; but I shall certainly recommend to Mr. Jefferson, to lose no time in entering into some arrangement with Mr. Lynes for their purchase.

True, as you say, "we shall meet no more in this world," but I shall ever remember with interest, the happy hours I have passed with one whom I am proud to call my friend; one, whom I beg to assure in all sincerity, I honour and esteem most cordially. FRANCIS W. GILMER. P. S. I am sorry I did not meet Mr. Kennedy. I heard his recitation at Cambridge with much pleasure.

Among the female correspondents of the scholar, are names of high account in fashion, as well as accomplishment, and a large volume could easily be selected of their letters. Dr. Parr's own remarks sufficiently characterise some of the writers, and others are too well known to require a comment. It behoves me, however, to single out Miss Emily Calcraft, on account of the elegant tribute she has paid to our friend's memory in the exact and luminous "Sketch of the Character of the late Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D."

The correspondence of Dr. Parr with his pupils, was often too personal to admit publication, and in some instances I am forbidden to publish what would be elucidatory of character and events. Those printed in the Appendix, are selected from a large mass, with every attention that I could pay to feelings of delicacy and decorum. To have expunged every sentence of a personal nature, instead of character, would have exhibited only a caput mortuum of insipidity.

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CHAPTER XXIV.

Second Marriage Reconciliation to his Grandchildren-Habits-Manners.

The second marriage of Dr. Parr was an event contemplated by him soon after the separation of his interests from those of his grandchildren. It was not carried into execution till December 1816.

This connection with Miss Eyre, the sister of his friend the Rev. James Eyre, was much opposed by those who were intimately acquainted with Dr. Parr's internal domestic economy; by John Bartlam especially, who knew, that the entire confidence placed by Parr in his household at Hatton, and his determination not to suffer the existing arrangements to be disturbed even by a wife, could only be productive of disagreement. Fortunately, the good and amiable qualities of the second Mrs. Parr neutralized, to a considerable extent, many otherwise irreconcileable matters. Parr continued to act on his former plans, his old servants were continued in their places, and it is possible that Mrs. Parr found the part she had to act, was not always without difficulty. She maintained her part, however, with honour, and to the end did all that a good wife could do, to the entire satisfaction of Dr. Parr's true friends.

The immediate cause of Dr. Parr's reconciliation

to his grand-daughters, was the marriage of their father, Mr. Wynne. A diminished fortune, and an entailed estate, rendered a second marriage particularly desirable to a gentleman in his circumstances. But a second marriage placed two daughters, grown up to woman's estate, in a situation with a stepmother of their own age, far different from that in which they were placed with their father alone. On the event therefore of his marriage, they took shelter with their grandfather, who received them with open arms, and gave them the whole shield of his protection. Thus was his household full of gladness. His beloved grand-daughters were restored to him. Mrs. Parr received them with unfeigned satisfaction, as the natural heirs of her husband's fortunes, and in no part was her conduct more disinterestedly good, than in the generous reception of the Miss Wynnes. I am more than happy to record the fact, that they lived happily together, till Caroline became the wife of the Rev. John Lynes,* rector of Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire.

With the increase of Dr. Parr's real happiness, came the external shew of it in the increase of his fortune. To no one had been more fully exemplified the

* I have mentioned Dr. Hughes's name before, on the affairs of the Queen. It was he who revealed Lord Cholmondeley's opinion on that business, to Mr. Lynes.

MY DEAR DOCTOR, Cholmondeley Castle, Oct. 1. 1822. Permit me to offer you my sincere and most hearty congratulations on the marriage of your amiable grand-daughter to our worthy excellent friend. I am confident, with all your eloquence, you could not express the happiness you feel on the

truth of the maxim, "throw thy bread on the waters, and it shall return to thee after many days." Struggling with narrow circumstances, and fighting for reputation, half his life had been spent in drudgery or in battle. The defeat at Harrow was the main misfortune of his life. There he had thrown his fate upon a single cast, and with too much precipitancy had declined all contest, save where the crown was in strife. This defeat led him into many errors, and above all his retreat to Stanmore.

I would repeat, that had Parr remained in his situation at Harrow, or had he taken shelter quietly at Cambridge, after the defeat at Harrow, his fortunes would have been different; that he would not have failed, as he did fail, at Stanmore; and that he would have succeeded, as he must have succeeded, greatly, in some other situation. Society must always want, and will always necessarily employ, such characters.

We have seen Parr rising up against all the disadvantages which tended to fix him to the ground. In early youth, arriving at great eminence for learning; then disappointed in his fondest and justest hopes; then rashly embarking in an enterprise of peril, and staking the fortune of life upon the occasion; as I well know the high situation Mr. Lynes possesses in your esteem for honour, integrity, and true benevolence of heart. That high esteem and unalterable friendship is now cemented by a union still nearer, dearer, and most amiable.

Esto perpetua- with the venerable name of Parr. I request my best remembrances and congratulations to Mrs. Parr. I am, my dear Doctor, with high respect and sincerest esteem, yours faithfully, J. HUGHES.

issue of a die: embarrassing himself with immoveable engagements; then changing his scheme again and again. At length, embarking on the sea of politics, he becomes attached to the greatest political men of the day; he is looked up to by scholars, and his learning is admitted on all sides. His political party flatter him with the phantom of preferment, and yet he is left with nothing to boast of but that he deserved preferment without possessing it. In the midst of these public disappointments, beloved by his friends, and respected even by his adversaries, his age advances. Such is the picture of his life at the period to which I have brought it-the reconciliation of his grand-daughters. I shall therefore now endeavour to trace the outlines of some parts of character, which my intimacy with him enables me to do with freedom, dare I say? with exactness.

In domestic life, Parr was too great a scholar, and too studious a man, to be the exact favourite of the drawing-room. All was to yield to his wishes, all was to be regulated by his habits. The ladies were obliged to bear his tobacco, or to give up his company; and at Hatton now and then, he was the tyrant of the fire-side. But he was so good humoured in his disposition, and was so easily led by kindness, that the cloud never lasted long, and the thunder was soon succeeded by sunshine and by calm. At table he has been called an Epicurean glutton. In society he has often been denominated a bear, and his moroseness, and impracticability, and severity, were the terror of many weak and effeminate spirits. It is not true that he was a glutton. He only loved a good dinner, as all