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He seemed
to be, he said, in a singular and indescribable vessel, but
always the same, moving with great rapidity towards a dark
and indefinite shore. He had had this dream before Antietam,
Murfreesboro, Gettysburg and Vicksburg."
The story is also found in George Eliot's Life (Vol. 3, 113),
as related by Charles Dickens on the authority of Stanton,
with characteristic amplifications.
Yours faithfully,
JOHN HAY.
The Honorable
George F. Hoar
United States Senate
My father, Samuel Hoar of Concord, was born in 1778 and died
in 1856. He was one of the most eminent lawyers at the Massachusetts
Bar. To this statement I can give better testimony than my
own, in the following letter from the Honorable Eben F. Stone,
late member of Congress from the Essex District.
WASHINGTON 9 March, '84.
_My dear Mr. Hoar:_
When I was a law student, I dined at Ipswich in our county,
with the Judges of the Supreme Court and the members of the
Essex Bar, who then had a room and a table by themselves.
The conversation took a professional turn, and a good deal
was said about Mr.


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