to him their faith.  He has everywhere learned to gather friends by showing himself friendly.  His interest in the people of his own community has been shown not merely by his public benefactions.  Every one in want of help has turned to him, and all have had a patient hearing and generous response.

He has been associated with people of every position and among all has been a favorite companion.  Everyone has felt at home with him.  It is rarely true that a man has gained success with so thorough a desire that his friends should enjoy what he has gathered with him.  He is thus remarkable for his prosperity, for the use which he is making of his prosperity, for his delight in giving pleasure to others, and for the disposition and temper which finds its enjoyment in such rational and kindly ways.

It is not that one never disagrees with Mr. Wallace.  He would scorn the flattery which yields convictions to attempt to please.  Even when we differ he is none the less congenial.  If I have ever had the feeling that in any respect I should like to make him over it has generally yielded to the conviction that on the whole I could not hope to do better than has been done.  Among all the men with whom I have come in contact in places of business responsibility and honor I do not know another to whom I give more unqualified respect and esteem than I do to Mr. Wallace.  Cordially,

    HENRY M. TYLER.”

Mr. Wallace, as has appeared, was for three years associated with Governor Long in the Government of Massachusetts.  In response to a note from me Mr. Long writes as follows: 

“I am glad to know that you are writing a sketch of Mr. Wallace for publication.  If a good subject will make a good sketch your work will be a success.  He is one of the men, however, who write their own lives, not in the pages of any autobiography, but in their conduct and character.  I have served with him in public life, and sat with him as one of my Councilors in the Executive Chamber, and have found him always a fund of practical good sense, of excellent judgment, trained by great experience in affairs, and of thorough integrity.  He is a representative Massachusetts man, the builder of his own fortune, equal to the enterprise of acquiring wealth and position, and magnanimous in their use and enjoyment.  But I like best to recall, as I am sure do all who know him, his generous friendship, his great public spirit, and his good heart, of which I have witnessed many proofs.  I trust that it may be many years before his life is taken in any other way than in such an appreciative and kindly sketch as you will write of him.

    Very truly yours,
    JOHN D. LONG.”

    WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 1885.