REMINISCENCE OF ELIAS HICKS

June 8. Today a letter from Mrs. E. S. L., Detroit, accompanied in a little post office roll by a rare old engraved head of Elias Hicks (from a portrait in oil by Henry Inman, painted for J. V. S., must have been sixty years or more ago, in New York)—among the rest the following excerpt about E. H. in the letter:

I have listen’d to his preaching so often when a child, and sat with my mother at social gatherings where he was the center, and everyone so pleas’d and stirr’d by his conversation. I hear that you contemplate writing or speaking about him, and I wonder’d whether you had a picture of him. As I am the owner of two, I send you one.