"Tinged faintly with such golden light
As crowns His martyr train."
J. HANNAH.
Rev. D.T.K. DRUMMOND to DEAN RAMSAY.
St. Fillans, Crieff, 16th June.
My dear Friend--This morning's paper brought us the sad, sad intelligence of the frightful calamity which has befallen your household.
My heart aches when I think of the overwhelming sorrow this great affliction must bring to your kind and loving heart. Long friendship and unbroken esteem must be my apology for intruding on you at this early stage of your bereavement. I cannot but express my deep and heart-felt sympathy with you in it, and my earnest prayer that God the Holy Spirit may sanctify and comfort by his own grace and presence all on whom this great sorrow has fallen.
In the expression of this sympathy my dear wife cordially unites with yours most affectionately and truly,
D.T.K. DRUMMOND.
Right Hon. W.E. GLADSTONE to DEAN RAMSAY.
11 Carlton H. Terrace,
June 16, 1866.
My dear Dean Ramsay--I cannot refrain from writing to you a word of sympathy under the grievous calamity with which your peaceful and united household has in the providence of God been visited. I have only heard of it in a very partial account to-day; but I deeply lament alike the extinction of a young and promising life, the loss your affectionate heart has sustained, and the circumstances of horror with which it has been accompanied. I need not say how this concern extends to your brother the Admiral also. I shall hope to hear of you through some common friend. I cannot ask you to write, but beg you to believe me always affectionately yours,
W.E. GLADSTONE.