“I enclose to you a letter of thanks, which you will have the goodness to let your man leave at the United Service Club. Captain Mangles was thrown in my way here by mere chance last summer as the stage-coach companion of ——, a Quaker of a new description from Philadelphia, who brought letters to me. The Quaker was ambitious of being what Shakspeare tells us the Prince of Darkness is: so he wore black and drank healths, and was superfine in his manners, and had with him the greatest curiosity of its kind that I have ever seen,—a Quaker album, in which the spirit had moved all his Quaker acquaintance to bestow the highest eulogiums upon the happy owner, and to pray for his spiritual welfare. But the gem of the book was a composition by His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
“The Quaker did not know the name of his travelling companion, but from his account I knew who he must be, and accordingly made the Quaker introduce him here. And the end of this is, that Captain Mangles has sent me a copy of his travels, which were printed for private distribution, and of which he could not lay his hands on a copy till now. . . . .
“I am now going to the Emigration paper, and I have
taken up Oliver Newman,
where I shall be in
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“God bless you!
