A MEMORABLE FRIENDSHIP.

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"He had conquered one tough problem in the realm of metallurgy, and would have conquered others; for he had very remarkable abilities, and his energy, industry and resource were inexhaustible, but he wore himself out prematurely."

And to the same friend, two months later, from Keats Corner, Hampstead:-" Mr. Aldrich's letter (which you have kindly sent me to read) does indeed confirm what I was surmising, that Walt Whitman's pecuniary resources are resources are more than ever straitened; and it seems a kind of disgrace to his admirers (let alone his country) that the little needed to make his remaining years comfortable should not be in some way or other supplied to him. .

The Aldrich here spoken of is The Hon. Chas. Aldrich, of Webster City, Iowa'-a Farmer, and donor to his State Library of an important autograph-collection. He called in 1885 upon Mr. Rossetti, who had previously presented him with a considerable number of autographs.

June the sixteenth Anne Gilchrist writes :-" I am sorry to say my difficult breathing makes it a great effort to me to get about, but I am fairly well and busy at home."

A line taken from a letter to William Michael Rossetti, August the fourteenth, ends a correspondence which is the record of a memorable friendship:-"I am rejoiced to see your name on the Committee for the Hyde Park Demonstration "-held in connection or through the agency of Thomas Stead.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wedmore, Mr. and Mrs.