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Rh esteem for him by editing his Life and Letters.

In these letters he mentions Miss Cobbe often and favorably, seeming to appreciate her intellectual and moral qualities highly, as they deserved. In a letter addressed to George Ripley, he speaks thus enthusiastically concerning her:

“Thank you for the kind and just things you say about Miss Cobbe. My friends the Hunts and Apthorps almost worship the maiden. I keep her birthday as one of my domestic holidays, and honor the fourth of December with unusual libations.”

Indeed, Miss Cobbe seems to have the faculty of inspiring and keeping friendship in an extraordinary degree. Her own cordial warm-heartedness and sunny disposition is probably largely the cause of this.

Moncure D, Conway, in a letter to the Round Table, thus describes her personal appearance;

"The first impression she makes is that of a great mass of merry flesh and blood,