Remembering with pleasure the friendship which your father expressed, not only in kind words, but in substantial offerings to the treasury and library of our Society, the Union would be most happy, should it comport with your feelings, to be made the medium of the publication and circulation of the memoir, which you have compiled with so much ability and faithfulness.
Hoping to receive a favorable response to our desire,
We are most truly yours,
THOMAS GAFFIELD,
JOHN SWEETSER,
JOSEPH H. ALLEN,
CHAS. C. SMITH,
C. J. BISHOP,
F. H. PEABODY,
W. IRVING SMITH,
ARTHUR W. HOBART.
H. K. WHITE,
J. F. AINSWORTH,
W. H. RICHARDSON,
FRANCIS S. RUSSELL,
FREDERIC H. HENSHAW,
CHARLES F. POTTER,
THORNTON K. LOTHROP,
GEO. S. HALE.
Rooms of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association,
Tremont Temple, Boston, July 10, 1855.
Dear Sir:
The Committee on the Library of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association beg leave, in its behalf, to tender you sincere thanks for your donation of a copy of the "Diary and Correspondence of Amos Lawrence." It will remain to the members of the Association a valued memorial of one of its earliest benefactors. It will be yet more prized for its record of his invaluable legacy,—the history of a long life—a bright example.
The Committee, uniting with the subscribers, managers of the Association, are happy to improve this opportunity to express the hope that you may be induced to give the book a more general circulation. The kindly charities of your late lamented parent are still fresh in impressions of gratitude upon their recipients. They require no herald to give them publicity. The voice of fame would do violence to their spirit.
Yet, now that "the good man" can no more utter his words of sympathy and counsel,—that his pen can no more subscribe its noble benefactions, or indite its lessons of wisdom and experience,—the press may silently perpetuate those which survive him.