To Arthur Godley.

I present you with this Memorial of your Father's work, not only in testimony of the love I bore him and the reverence in which I hold his memory, but in the hope that it may stimulate you to emulate a career of usefulness which was curtailed only by bodily infirmity. I regret that these few papers,—clear in thought, just in judgment, and resolute in action, as they declare the writer to have been,—should still depict so feebly that greatness of character which won the admiration and trust of his intimate friends, and which, had he been granted health and long life, we doubt not the world would one day have recognised.