Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

THURSTON AND TORRY, PRINTERS.

DEDICATION.

TO MY CHILDREN,

Whose love and devotedness have been a source of happiness and joy to me in my days of health and activity, and of solace and comfort in seasons of infirmity, and in old age:

AND

TO THE PRECIOUS MEMORY OF THEIR SAINTED MOTHER, This Volume is Dedicated

TO ELIZABETH CUTTS DUTTON.

I dedicate this volume also to you. We are the children of the same parents; grew up from infancy together; have been, through life, except only for a brief period, side by side; without the recollection of one unkind action, or word, or thought, towards each other; and are the last survivors of our father's household.

Nor is this all. You will find in this volume a sermon containing the portraiture of a good mother, and will not fail to trace in it, though she was not the prototype, the lineaments of the character of that sainted being,