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or perhaps he did not know. Recollect, that he must need touch at Piraeus. For the rest, I shall get the book to-morrow.

And why to-morrow, & not to-day? Because to-morrow I shall have to go to Piraeus to accompany our excellent friend Sir Thos. & Miss Wyse who embark for Marseilles, en route to England & Ireland! Sir Thomas has obtained leave of absence for several months, the first since his appointment 11 years ago. This will be about till October in all probability (and who knows if he may not get a promotion, & leave us altogether, a consummation I do not like to look forward to). We were there last evening at a grand leave-taking, & I spoke much about you & read to him & Miss W. your last letter. They both begged me to say all manner of kind things to you—& how much they would be delighted to hear from you while they are at home. Should it enter into your head to drop them a line, you may enclose your letter to George Lenox Conyngham Esq., Foreign Office, London (Sir Thomas, perhaps you are not aware, is now "Envoy Extraordinary & Min. Plenip." — the knighthood step he received quite lately.) The affairs of the Legation are to be managed by the Hon. Cornwallis Eliot (sic) son of Lord St. Germains, now Sec.y of Legation here. A very gentlemanly person, & a direct representative of Sir Thos. Twysden if it was an ancestor of his, or a member of his family that founded your (quondam) Eliot Professorship? About the Cornwallis we know something. Lord St. Germains is to accompany the Prince of Wales to America in virtue of his Office as Comptroller of the Queen's Household or for some other reason). Perhaps he may "drop in" at one of your Presidential receptions, along with his August protégé. If so, you can ask him about the Eliots, & tell him you hear he has a very clever Son in Athens as H. M. Representative! and that will go down nicely.—

I sent your note to Venerable Asopios, but have not heard from him nor seen him as I have not been out much on foot. Poor old man! I fear he will soon follow our ever to be lamented Pharmakides, ὄγις μᾶς ἔφυγε Χέδρους, on the 3rd inst. I think you have had much association with our departed friend. Yet he was well worth knowing, a profound Scholar, a Man of sterling integrity, a learned Divine, a true patriot. You must know his Logios Hermes, a semi-monthly paper edited by him in Vienna from 1811 to the Commencement of the Revolution. Most of his works since I have known him, have been Controversial, semi-political, semi-ecclesiastical. He held an

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important place in the Community for the vast influence of his character which influence was always exerted in favour of liberal opinions, & sound measures. He was the unwavering friend, & Counsellor of Mavrocordato, & the unceasing enemy of everything that was Russian both in Church & State. His controversies with Oikonomos amused & instructed us for years. As yet very few notices have appeared in our public papers, but I send you now all I find—& I shall send you more especially Pericles Argyropoulos' funeral Oration (Rontogonis also delivered an address at the funeral, but it was too commonplace to be sent so far)—Rangabé (I suppose I told you before he was no longer Minister) was here to-day—& I read to him what you say about biographical facts, & he promises me he will compile some. He will send you the 2d & 3d vols of his Amalthia (altho' I believe you have already recd. the 2d volume).—I will do all in my power to obtain for you biographical notices of facts for Asopios & others as you request.

I hope you have ere this welcomed Sakellarios, the bearer of my parcel. He was detained a good while in Smyrna, but I suppose now he has 2 months since he sailed for Boston.

I am beginning to be tired, as I am sure you have been so long ago. I must lift my pen, tho' unwillingly—for it seems as if I were conversing with you, πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον. Only I don't seem to hear your hearty laugh—perhaps the fault is my own—I have not written any thing to cause one. So saying, & disgusted with my own dullness, I relieve you.

Ever yours J. H. Hill

The letter for Calliope I forwarded to Constantinople. She is residing with the family of Mr. Lascarides, of the firm of Ralli, Lascarides & Co.—but any thing you may choose to send to her had better be sent to me, as her position is not a permanent one.

Pantazi was much gratified by your remarks about his paper—when I read to him what you say about your having so much upon your shoulders, & that they are tolerably broad,

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he observed 'he shall henceforth call him Ἧγάτωρ Felton'.

I have not forgotten the Salutations: they are better in a P.S.—My dear Wife, who is in the enjoyment of good health, sends you & your dear wife kindest greetings, & so do I. I hope to make the acquaintance of all your family one day, either on this side the water, or the other. Mary Baldwin sends you her kindest remembrances.—We were all delighted to learn that Miss Felton wore the Cretan dress on the occasion of her first appearance in Washington. No doubt she became it as we say.—The Chivalric General sends you most affectionate returns & thanks for your mention of him. He is very melancholy at the thought of the Wyses going away. Finlay is occupied with the last volume of his Greek History. He is looking very old. I must go & look up some newspapers for you. Adieu.

I shall be glad to welcome Professor Socrates.

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Etats Unis d'Amerique } par France C. C. Felton LL.D. President of Harvard University Cambridge (near Boston) Mass:

paid (lower left corner) J. H. Hill. (written vertically on right edge)