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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A: Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West
His old friend and associate at Wellington, the Rev. John King, now Incumbent of Christ Church, Hull, to whom I wrote on the subject, thus addressed me But independently of all considerations of this kind, I believe you would be much better qualified than myself, or than any other person I know, to do justice to the excellent yet peculiar character of the departed. Let me beseech you, therefore, to arrange your correspondence and materials with a view to publication.
His excellent and much-loved sister, Mrs. Holland, wrote to me as follows The early, close, con tinned, and personal acquaintance vou had with my dear brother, constitute you, in my opinion, his most suitable biographer.
And his brother, the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, wrote to me in a similar strain On the very day that I received your letter, I was fully intending to write to you, entreating you not to abandon your design of writing a memoir of your dear departed friend, my beloved brother George. You, above all persons I know, are the man to undertake that work of love with any prospect of a successful issue. Your own correspondence with him, through such a long series of years, would alone furnish rich matter, I doubt not, for a biographer.
Thus urged and encouraged, I was unwilling not to do my best: and if I have proved myself but an unfit steed to draw such a chariot, the friends, at least, of my dear departed friend must not forget that it was they who put me into it; and this same con sideration also will, I h0pe, lead others to view the faults and imperfections of the work with indulgence.
Happily for me, the work is one rather of selection and compilation than of original composition, and the life of my friend will suffer less from the hand that draws it up, by reason of his speaking chie?y for himself; his correspondence is, perhaps, his best memoir, and this is the kind of life that it falls to mv lot to prepare of him.
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