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Permit me, most respectfully, but earnestly, to ask thy early attention to this case.
The old man is confined to his bed, and so low, that he cannot continue many weeks.
Unless
Allen is very soon released, there is no probability that he will ever see him. I have no self-interested motives in this matter, but am influenced solely by considerations of humanity.
With sincere desires for thy health and happiness, I am very respectfully thy friend,
promptly replied as follows.
My worthy friend,
Isaac T. Hopper,
I have often thought of thee since we last met. I have received thy letter; and because thou hast written to me, and because I know that what thou writest is always truth, and that the old man, before he lays him down to die, may behold the face of his son, I will restore Allen to his kindred.
When thou comest to Albany, I pray thee to come and see me. Very respectfully thy friend,
The monitor within frequently impelled Friend Hopper to address the assembled convicts at Sing Sing, on Sunday.
The officers of the establishment were very willing to open the way for him; for according to the testimony of Mr. Harman Eldridge, the warden, ‘With all his kindness, and the encouragement he was always ready to give, he was guarded and cautious in the extreme, that nothing ’
