And it applies closely, I am sure, in the consolations it
     suggests; that

“He who willed her tender frame
Should rear the martyr’s robe of flame,”

     has prepared for her a garland in Heaven,

“Tinged faintly with such golden light
As crowns His martyr train.”

But if blessed for her, it will be a sore trial for the survivors.  We feel so keenly for her poor sisters, who seem to have to bear the brunt of so many sorrows.  May God support them and you!  So prays in hearty sympathy, yours ever sincerely,

     J. HANNAH.

     Rev. D.T.K.  DRUMMOND to DEAN RAMSAY.

     St. Fillans, Crieff, 16th June.

     My dear Friend—­This morning’s paper brought us the sad, sad
     intelligence of the frightful calamity which has befallen
     your household.

My heart aches when I think of the overwhelming sorrow this great affliction must bring to your kind and loving heart.  Long friendship and unbroken esteem must be my apology for intruding on you at this early stage of your bereavement.  I cannot but express my deep and heart-felt sympathy with you in it, and my earnest prayer that God the Holy Spirit may sanctify and comfort by his own grace and presence all on whom this great sorrow has fallen.

     In the expression of this sympathy my dear wife cordially
     unites with yours most affectionately and truly,

     D.T.K.  DRUMMOND.

     Right Hon. W.E.  GLADSTONE to DEAN RAMSAY.

     11 Carlton H. Terrace,

     June 16, 1866.

My dear Dean Ramsay—­I cannot refrain from writing to you a word of sympathy under the grievous calamity with which your peaceful and united household has in the providence of God been visited.  I have only heard of it in a very partial account to-day; but I deeply lament alike the extinction of a young and promising life, the loss your affectionate heart has sustained, and the circumstances of horror with which it has been accompanied.  I need not say how this concern extends to your brother the Admiral also.  I shall hope to hear of you through some common friend.  I cannot ask you to write, but beg you to believe me always affectionately yours,

     W.E.  GLADSTONE.

Very few of the Dean’s own letters have been preserved, but the following will show him as a correspondent:—­

     DEAN RAMSAY to Dr. ALEXANDER.

     23 Ainslie Place, Feb. 3, 1865

Dear Dr. Lindsay Alexander—­I am not aware of having an undue predominance of modesty in my nature, but really I have been surprised, I may truly say much amazed, at the dedication of the volume which I received this evening.  Need I add that, on more calmly considering the matter, I am deeply gratified.  From Dr. Lindsay Alexander such a compliment can be no ordinary gratification.  “Laudari a laudatis”