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That he might have no difficulty in making himself understood, I showed
him how he could salute the people for himself & wrote my own salutation in the
native language.

Hear what he says: "Your aloha to your friends at the Sandwich Islands,
was in place everywhere, & I had your salutation read in about all the sixteen
or twenty congregations, I had the happiness to address. Multitudes of the old
people remember you with great affection, and many were the inquiries made con-
cerning you. Not a few both men and women evinced a tender emotion when speaking
of you, **** The work of God on these islands is greater than I ever saw--one
of his most wonderful works ". This very gratifying testimony from beyond the
western side of this continent written at sea was hurried on by the power of
steam to meet here your grateful testimony and testimonial from this Eastern
side, dated five weeks later. The existence of this kind of feeling at home
and abroad, and the unfailing promise of God, to his propagators of the
Gospel, ought to uphold me from despondency.

Had you been able to call upon us as you desired, we should have welcomed
you with great pleasure. Hope our mutual wishes may yet be gratified. We too
should like much to make you & yours a visit at your own hospitable mansion,
should that be found to be convenient.

P.S. Sept. 5. Please excuse my undue delay--- accept our united & grateful
salutations to yourself & Lady, and believe me to be as ever,
Respectfully and Affectionately

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New Haven Ct. March 11, 1864.

Hon'l Sam'l Williston
East Hampton.

My dear Sir,

I am highly gratified to see, by a cheering list of my obliging benefactors, recently furnished me by our Friend, Dr. Anderson, that notwithstanding your liberal and oft repeated kindnesses to me and mine, you have now generously superadded the Donation of One Hundred Dollars to a Fund most kindly designed to secure for my benefit a life annuity of $500, to cheer the declining years of a retired missionary, even unto the end.

If I am a friend in need is ever a rich blessing, what shall we think to say, then, in our greatest straits, they so freely, and with so much good will, appear by scores?

Let us thank God and take courage.

The providential clustering of the demonstrations of Friendship, sympathy, and kindness, here and in Massachusetts and in New York, at the time when in mid-winter, the thermometer standing at zero, we were required to vacate our premises, and remove or suspend our school, brought tender tears to our eyes and our keens to the ground before our Heavenly Father.

For this friendly, timely and highly appreciated benefaction from one on whom I had no claims, a gratuity, in which dear wife and children will rejoice with me, accept, dear Sir, my most cordial thanks, and the assurance of my most sincere desire and fervant prayer that the gracious Lord of the still plenteous and whitened harvest, may bless you and yours with his daily smiles, and of his great mercy grant you an ever enduring reward.

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New Haven, May 13, 1869

Hon. Sam'l Williston
East Hampton

My dear Sir,

With a sense of new obligations of gratitude to you after all your former kind donations to me and mine, I am happy to acknowledge the receipt from you, thro' my friend H. Hill Esq., the sum of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) on my annuity, for which please accept my cordial thanks so fully demanded, by so timely and so very acceptable a favor.

I am glad at length, to be able to comply with my promise to send you and your excellent Lady a copy of the Damon Tract on " Puritan Missions in the Pacific " enlarged and reissued here under my supervision with the aid of our long tried, constant friend James Hunnewell, Esq. of Charlestown, Ms.

Please accept for yourself and Mrs. W. a copy of the work from me as a small token of grateful remembrance and an index to the work of God for a half a century in the Pacific Islands. Being requested to take the Editorship and agency of getting it through the press here in New Haven, and to add some half dozen pages and a frontispiece, I have tried to add something to the value of the work for readers out of that Missionary field. I have given a place to the Morning Star No. 2 Enterprise, and Lydia's school, both of a later date than Mr. Damon's sketch of the work spread over that wide field, and a little more prominence to the Oahu College than he found time or room to include in his commendable effort, though I think you will agree with me in the opinion that he took too much for granted as familiarly known to his hearers and readers.

If you like the tract and would like to furnish some copies to your friends who you think would value them, I will send you a package.

I have recently returned from an excursion to Boston and Charlestown and Andover.

On Monday the third inst. I was summoned by letter and telegraph to hasten to Charlestown, if I could, to attend at 3 p.m. of the 4th, as pall-bearer at the funeral of J. Hunnewell. I started the 3d inst. at 11 p.m., lodged and slept a few hours at Springfield and took an Albany morning train to Boston. His mansion was thronged at three, when the services commenced. I was there in good time. His Pastor conducted the services. Then we removed the remains to near the door leading out where his numerous friends and acquaintances were allowed to look on his changed countenance, as they passed out; then came also his afflicted widow, their only son, their adopted daughter, Helen, and her husband Mr. Bramon (this should perhaps have been copied Braman, NB); also Susan, a niece of Mrs. H. as another adopted daughter. They were much affected. It seemed a hard parting.

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You and Mr. Hunnewell have both very kindly aided me and my family and
those at the Sandwich Islands are there using their education which you helped
them to acquire, and carrying out your wishes and mine in diffusing the
knowledge of letters and of the great salvation, in the various Isles and
coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Heaven bless them!

I hope you may see many happy results of your benefactions which God has
so kindly enables you to make and that your dear companion may long share
richly with you in this joy.

I have now a granddaughter in Mt. Holyoke Seminary, Mary A. Reynolds,
the daughter of Lucy, the wife of Rev. C.O. Reynolds, St. Augustine, Florida.

A few months more, if I live, will make my age 80 years, having been
born Oct. 30, 1789. I must not expect to continue very long. If you come this
way, come and see us, at 429 Howard Avenue, Co. Gilbert street. We much desire
to see you. Dear wife joins in kind regards to you and yours.

Very respectfully, and cordially,
your friend

H. Bingham

P.S. July 8

Can you forgive my mistake, or unfortunate neglect to finish and
forward this letter to you after writing seven or eight large pages ? I see I
have made a needless repetition and the crowded 5th and 6th pages I may perhaps
well suppress. In my memorial discourse, strictly extemporaneous, I took the
motto " Teach all nations " and endeavored to explain and enforce the duty
and manifold advantages and by a careful tracing of the last fifty years of
Mr. H's life in connection with our cause showed the practicability and
utility of the aid of a non-professor of Religion, in this good work, so
worthy of the most vigorous and wisely directed efforts of all who know the
blessed gospel.

Had you heard my free extemporaneous discourse I trust you would
have been comforted in respect to your failure on account of your eyes, to
enter the gospel ministry, since in consequence, you have been enabled to
help so many others and so do so much for the cause of Christian Education,
and the evangelization of the world, as an active, successful, prosperous
and liberal layman.

Rev. Gordon Hall of Northampton, sends me a five dollar green-back birthday present from year to year.

The foregoing letter was addressed:

Hon. Sam'l Williston & Lady

East Hampton
from their obliged friend,
H. Bingham
New Haven, Ct. 1869