Year: 1868

making part of our household whose
nerves were a source of general as well
as personal discomfort, and this was his
attestation of the fact.


There were wiser and deeper sayings
treasured as they fell from his lips but
will not repeat them. Several yet live
who remember the graceful gayety where
with he charmed admiring circles assem-
bled at our house, and of two or three
larger gatherings of Social Reform in
this city, and at the N. A. Phalanx in
New Jersey and l think some grave
seignors, who were accustomed to help us
enjoy our Saturday afternoons in our ru-
raj suburban residence at Turtle Bay,
were drawn thither quite asmuch by the
admiration of the son as by their regard
for his parents.


Meantime, another daughter was Civ
en- to us, and, after six months, with
drawn; and still another born, who vet
survives and he had run far into his
sixth year without one serious illness.
His mother had devoted herself to him
from his birth, even beyond her intense
conservation to the care of her other chill
dren had never allowed him to partake
of animal food, or to know that an ami
NAL was ever killed to be eaten had
watched and tended him with absorbing
love, till the perils of infancy seemed
fairly vanquished; and we had reason to
hope that the light of our eyes would be
spared to gladden. our remaining years.


1t was otherwise decreed. In the sum-
mer of 1649, the Asiatic cholera sudden
ly reappeared in our city, and the fright
ened authorities ordered all swine, &c,
driven out of town-that is, above For
tieth street-whereas our home was about
Forty-eighth street, though no streets had
yet been cut through that quarter. AT
once, and before we realized our danger,
the atmosphere was polluted by the ex-
halations of the swinish multitude thrust
upon us from the densely peopled hives
south of us, and the cholera claimed its
victims by scores before we were gene
rally aware of its presence.


(. Our darling was among the first: at
tackled at A. M. of the 18th of July,
when no medical assistance was at hand
and our own prompt, unremitted efforts,
reinforced at length by the best medical
skill within reach, availed nS,hing to stay
the fury of the epidemic, to which he
succumbed about 5 P. M. of that day
one of the hottest, as well as quite the
longest, / have ever known. He was en-
tirely sane ard conscious till near the
last; insisting that he felt little or no
pain, and was well, save that we kept
him sweltering under clothing that he
wanted to throw off, as he did, whenever
he was permitted. When at length the
struggle ended with his last breath, and
even his mother was convinced that his
eyes would never again open on the
scenes of this world, | knew that the
summer of my life was over, that the
chill breath of its autumn was at hand,
and that my future course must be along
the downhill of life.


Yet another son (Raphael Uhland)
was born two years afterward who, though
more like his father and less like poet
than Arthur, was quite as deserving Of
parental love, though not SO eminently
fitted to evoke and command general ad.
miration. He was with me in France
and in Switzerland in the summer Of
1866, spending with his mother and sister
the previous winter in London, and thai
subsequent in Dresden returning with
them in May, '56 to fall victim to the
Group the ensuing February. I was alb
sent on a lecturing tour when apprised
of his dangerous illness, and hastened
home to find that he had died an houl
before my arrival, though he had hoped
and striven to await my return he hao
fulfilled his sixth year and twelve day.
over when our home was again made
desolate by his death.


Another daughter was born to us fou
weeks later who survives; so that w
have reason to be grateful for two chill
dren left to soothe our decline, as well a
for five who having proceeded us on tn
long journey, await US in the land o
souls.


My life has been busy and anxious
but not joyless. Whether it shall b
prolonged few or more years, am CRATE
full that it has endured SO long, and tha
it has abounded in opportunities 70
good not wholly unimproved, and in ex
perience of the nobler as well as tn
bases impulses of human nature, ! hav
been spared to see the end of gian
wrongs, which / once deemed Invincibl
in this century, and to note the silent ur
springing and growth of principles an