it has generally yielded to the conviction that on
the whole I could not hope to do better than has been done.
Among all the men with whom I have come in contact in places of
business responsibility and honor I do not know another to whom
I give more unqualified respect and esteem than I do to Mr.
Wallace. Cordially,

HENRY M. TYLER."

Mr. Wallace, as has appeared, was for three years associated with
Governor Long in the Government of Massachusetts. In response to a note
from me Mr. Long writes as follows:

"I am glad to know that you are writing a sketch of Mr. Wallace
for publication. If a good subject will make a good sketch your
work will be a success. He is one of the men, however, who write
their own lives, not in the pages of any autobiography, but in
their conduct and character. I have served with him in public
life, and sat with him as one of my Councilors in the Executive
Chamber, and have found him always a fund of practical good
sense, of excellent judgment, trained by great experience in
affairs, and of thorough integrity. He is a representative
Massachusetts man, the builder of his own fortune, equal to the
enterprise of acquiring wealth and position, and magnanimous in
their use and enjoyment. But I like best to recall, as I am sure
do all who know him, his generous friendship, his great public
spirit, and his good heart, of which I have witnessed many
proofs. I trust that it may be many years before his life is
taken in any other way than in such an appreciative and kindly
sketch as you will write of him.

Very truly yours,
JOHN D. LONG."

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 1885.

December 1, 1853, Mr. Wallace married Sophia Ingalls, daughter of Thomas
Ingalls of Rindge, New Hampshire. She died June 20, 1871, leaving two
sons, Herbert I. Wallace and George R. Wallace. Herbert is a graduate of
Harvard in the class of 1877. George studied at the Institute of
Technology in Boston. They are associated with their father in the
management of his business. December 28, 1876 Mr. Wallace married Mrs.
Sophia F. Bailey of Woodstock, Vermont. Mr. Bailey was a member of
Congress from the district in which Fitchburg is included. Mrs. Wallace
is one of the well-known Billings family of Woodstock. Mr. Wallace lives
in a beautiful house on Prospect street, which is surrounded with
beautiful lawns and green-houses w