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Excerpt from A Memorial Sketch of Lieut. Edgar M. Newcomb: Of the Nineteenth Mass; Vols
Limited space requires that college reminiscences should be brought to a close. Contemplating a prolonged sojourn across the sea, Edgar wrote to a relative as follows: I shall often think of you in my absence, and always as of one growing in grace, and learning daily that the Christian life-work is to supply defects and correct the perverted working of our own faculties, rather than watch the development of graces already in existence.
Shortly before commencement in 1860, Newcomb engaged passage for Europe in the bark Lawrence, sailing from St. John, N. B. The captain's wife was also a passenger. After a pleasant voyage Edgar landed in England, but soon had the misfortune to lose his baggage, letters of introduction and most of his money. Determined to continue his journey as long as possible, the undaunted and persevering traveller reduced his expenses by a pedestrian excursion through a portion of England and France.
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