d its penetrating and
vivifying power over others.

My last intercourse with _him_ was a letter from _her_, hailing in
his name the hope of seeing me at Montreux, in Switzerland, whither
I was going in the expectation of finding them. The letter broke off
in the middle, and ended with the news, calamitous to me, as to all
who knew him, of his death. At the time when I visited them at
Manchester, he had accepted some Professorship in the then newly
established Owen's College.]

WOODSLEY HOUSE, Leeds.

I think, my dear Hal, your wish that I might see more of Mr. Scott and
his family is likely to be realized. To my great pleasure, I received a
note from him the other day, telling me that there was a general desire
in Manchester to have the "Midsummer Night's Dream" given with
Mendelssohn's music. He wrote of this to me, expressing his hope that it
might be done, and that so I might be brought to them again; adding the
kind and cordial words, "All here love you"--which expression touched
and gratified me deeply; and I hope that the reading may take place, and
that I shall have the privilege of a few days' more intercourse with
that man.

The name of the noble woman whose impulse of humanity so overcame all
self-considerations, of whom he told me, was Miss Coutts-Trotter.
[Nursing a person who was in a state of collapse in the last stage of
cholera, she had sought to bring back the dying woman's vitality by
embracing her closely, and breathing on her mouth her own breath of life
and love.] ...

I can tell you of no other publications of Mr. Scott. It is the despair
of his wife, sisters, friends, and admirers that so few of his good
words have been preserved. But in these days of printing and publishing,
proclaiming and producing, I am beginning to have rather a sympathy with
those who withhold, than with those who utter, all their convictions....
I have always held that what people could put forth from them in any
kind was less valuable than what they could not--what they were
compelled to retain--the reserve force of their mind and nature; and
thinking this, as I do, more and more, I regret less and less such
instances as this of Mr. Scott's apparently circumscribed sphere, by the
non-publication of his lectures and discourses. He is daily teaching a
body of young men; and to such of them as are able to receive his
teaching, he will bequ