Stereotyped by J. Fagan & Son, Philadelphia.




To The Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, D.D., LL.D., Bishop Of
Pennsylvania.

My Dear Bishop:

I desire to connect your name with whatever may be useful and valuable in
this work, to show my high appreciation of your fervent piety, varied
learning, and elegant literary accomplishments; and, also, far more than
this, to record the personal acknowledgment that no man ever had a more
constant, judicious, generous and affectionate brother, than you have been
to me, for forty years of intimate and unbroken association.

Most affectionately and faithfully yours,

Henry Coppée.




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