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Rh want, mother.’ The dear girl had no anxiety about herself, but she yearned over her mother. On Thanksgiving morning, before the good people of New York arose to give thanks for the mercies of the preceding year, Kate went to give thanks in the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Two days later a few who knew her worth followed the dear remains to their last resting place. There shall they remain till the trump shall raise the quick and dead.”

John Griscom, LL. D., Mr. Carter’s early and highly valued friend and patron, died February 25, 1852, Dr. Griscom was widely known as a learned and influential member of society, a professor of chemistry, and an able contributor to the leading scientific journals of the day. Mr. Carter’s love for him never waned, but he spoke of him with the utmost gratitude and tenderness to the last days of his own life. In a letter written shortly after Dr. Griscom’s death, he speaks with pleasure of his intimate acquaintance “with one who never met me without a smile of complacency, and whose sound advice and kind encouragement were never withheld in time of need.” Dr. Griscom removed to Burlington, N. J., shortly after Mr. Carter’s arrival in New York, but their friendship never lapsed. Mr. Carter writes of him:—

“On his first visit to my dwelling, after my marriage, he looked around the parlor, and with unaffected kindness addressed me: ‘Little didst thou think, a few years ago, when thou called on me, a poor Scotch lad, that thou shouldst be so soon in such comfortable circumstances. I am glad to see thee so happily situated.’

“Some years later, he again dined with me, and spent the evening. Taking my little boy, three years old, on his knee, he heard him, with evident pleasure, repeat a