21 JULY 1877, Page 13

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

MR. MAURICE'S BIOGRAPHY.

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you allow me to answer Mr. Footman, and through him others, of whose very natural impatience on the above sub- ject I am well aware?

The work of editing my father's letters is not one that can be finished in a hurry. I have been engaged on it for some years, and must still ask for a little more patience.

Scarcely any event occurred during my father's manhood about which he did not closely concern himself. Mr. Footman and others who hope for some help from a study of his life will not gain by any carelessness either in the investigation or the state- ment of the part which he played.

Very ample materials are in my hands, though even now I not unfrequently receive accessions to them, for which I am always