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During their stay in
Glasgow,
Mr. Garrison and his children were the guests of
Mr. A. F. Stoddard, an American merchant, a nephew of
Arthur Tappan; and the views of the lower Highlands from his beautiful residence on the
Clyde, at
Port Glasgow, were the only glimpses they obtained of them.
On the 24th of July they returned to
London for a fortnight of comparative respite, and quiet social enjoyment.
They again passed a delightful evening with Mazzini at1 the house of Mrs. Stansfeld's brother, William H. Ashurst, Jr., and saw him for the last time.
A day or two later there came this note from him:
Aug. 3, 18 Fulham Road, S. W.
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my dear friend: We may never more see one another.
Will you accept my photograph, and think of me sometimes?
God bless you, and all those you love!
Ever faithfully yours,
How deeply the apostle of Italian liberty and unity was loved and reverenced by his American fellow-reformer, the latter endeavored to express in his reply to the above; and five years later, after Mazzini's death, it was his privilege to do so more fully and publicly in the Introduction which he then prepared for an American edition of Mazzini's writings.3 Few men have better understood and appreciated one another, or been more magnetically drawn, each to the other, than they.
Last Thursday I called to see
William E. Forster, member of
4 Parliament (Harry accompanying me), and spent a pleasant
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