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     PROFESSOR SEDGWICK to the Rev. Mr. MALCOLM.

     Trinity College, Cambridge, May 1, 1872.

Dear Mr. Malcolm—­I had been previously informed of the death of my dear old friend, the Bishop of Edinburgh, but I am very grateful to you for thinking so kindly of me, and for communicating particulars about which I was not acquainted previously.  Accept my expressions of true-hearted sympathy, and pray impart them to the surviving members of dear Bishop Terrot’s family.  He was an old, an honoured and beloved friend; God laid upon his old age an unusual load of the labours and sorrows of humanity, but they are over now, and he has reached his haven of shelter from external sorrow and his true and enduring home of joy and peace, in the presence of his Maker and Redeemer.  I am very infirm, and am affected by an internal malady, which, through the past winter, has confined me to my college rooms, but I have to thank my Maker for thousands of little comforts to mind and body, by which I am hourly surrounded, and for His long-suffering in extending my probation till I have entered on my 88th year.  My eyes are dim-sighted and irritable, so that I generally dictate my letters; now, however, I am using my own pen to express my thanks to you, in this time of your sorrow for the loss of one so nearly and dearly connected with your clerical life.  My memory is not much shaken, except in recalling names not very familiar to me, and I think (with the painful exception I have alluded to) that my constitutional health is sound.  When my friends call upon me, my deafness generally compels me to use an ear-trumpet, and I yesterday took it to our college walks, to try if I could catch the notes of the singing birds, which were piping all round me.  But, alas!  I could not hear the notes of the singing birds, though I did catch the harsher and louder notes of the rooks, which have their nests in some college grounds.

     May the remaining years of your life be cheered and animated
     by good abiding Christian hope.—­I remain very faithfully
     yours, ADAM SEDGWICK.

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     PROFESSOR SEDGWICK to DEAN RAMSAY.

     Trinity College, Cambridge,

     29th May 1872.

My dear Dean—­I this morning received your kind presentation copy of your Reminiscences, which I shall highly value for its own sake, and as your gift.  I read little now because my eyes are both dim-sighted and very irritable; but your book will just suit me, as it is not a continuous tale, but a succession of tales, each of which is perfect in itself, and I hope to read it bit by bit without worrying my enfeebled powers of sight.

I meant to have thanked you in an autograph, but there has been a sudden change in the atmosphere, which is dark, heavy and wet, and when there is a defect of light I am almost constrained