JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESON [To the Editor of the SPscmsoa.] Sm,—The
beautiful article in your paper from the pen of Prebendary Mackay, describing the life and death of John Coleridge Patteson, known to me in my boyhood as "Cousin Coley," brings back to me the poignant sorrow that fell upon us all when the news of his pathetic end reached England.
As a perpetual reminder of him there has lain on my writing- table now for many years the compass which he used in his wanderings, which was given him by my great uncle, Francis
Coleridge. . • There was erected by my father at the cross, roads on- the
Great Western Road near Alfington a wayside- cross, which .commemorates the Bishop as " a wise, a holy, and a humble .man." The whirling motorist, on his. way to .Exeter, never pauses to look at it, but the humble pedestrian may read and learn that the highest life, is that of sacrillee.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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