James H. Titus, of New-York, thus expresses himself in a letter to James S. Gibbons:  “I have ever considered it one of the happiest and most fortunate events of my life, to have had the privilege of an acquaintance with Friend Hopper.  I shall always recur to his memory with pleasure, and I trust with that moral advantage, which the recollection of his Christian virtues is so eminently calculated to produce.  How insignificant the reputation of riches, how unsatisfactory the renown of victory in war, how transient political fame, when compared with the history of a long life spent in services rendered to the afflicted and the unfortunate!”

Ellis Gray Loring, of Boston, in a letter to John Hopper, says:  “We heard of your father’s death while we were in Rome.  I could not restrain a few tears, and yet God knows there is no room for tears about the life or death of such a man.  In both, he was a blessing and encouragement to all of us.  He really lived out all the life that was given him; filling it up to such an age with the beauty of goodness, and consecrating to the divinest purposes that wonderful energy of intellect and character.  In a society full of selfishness and pretension, it is a great thing to have practical proof that a life and character like his are possible.”

Edmund L. Benzon, of Boston, writing to the same, says; “You will imagine, better than I can write, with what deep sympathy I learned the death of your good father, whom I have always esteemed one of the best of men.  I cannot say I am sorry for his death.  My only regret is that more of us cannot live and die as he has done.  I feel with regard to all good men departed, whom I have personally known, that there is now another witness in the spirit, before whose searching eyes my inmost soul lies open.  I shall never forget him; not even if such a green old age as his should be my own portion.  If in the future life I can only be as near him as I was on this earth, I shall deem myself blest.”

From the numerous notices in papers of all parties and sects, I will merely quote the following:  The New-York Observer thus announces his death: 

“The venerable Isaac T. Hopper, whose placid benevolent face has so long irradiated almost every public meeting for doing good, and whose name, influence, and labors have been devoted with an apostolic simplicity and constancy to humanity, died on Friday last, at an advanced age.  He was a Quaker of that early sort illustrated by such philanthropists as Anthony Benezet, Thomas Clarkson, Mrs. Fry, and the like.

“He was a most self-denying, patient, loving friend of the poor, and the suffering of every kind; and his life was an unbroken history of beneficence.  Thousands of hearts will feel a touch of grief at the news of his death; for few men have so large a wealth in the blessings of the poor, and the grateful remembrance of kindness and benevolence, as he.”

The New-York Sunday Times contained the following: