other on having reached wealth, honour, and fame; endeared by the recollection that it will be by our own industry, which alone will pave the way to these blessings. That such may be our future lot; that we and our children may be ever united in the bonds of friendship and companionship; and that you and I may enjoy many hours of delightful intercourse and retrospection is the sincere wish of
Yours sincerely,
Mr B. Boulter,
Student of Medicine, College, Glasgow.
The wish expressed by Mr Harland in the last clause of the preceding letter, was ultimately realised. His early friend died very suddenly in November 1867; but in January of the same year, his son, the present W. Consitt Boulter, Esq., F.S.A., was in correspondence with him on antiquarian subjects. In addition to the two letters already given, Mr Boulter has kindly communicated the following extracts from the letters which passed between them:—
"I am very glad to find that a son of one of my oldest friends is so early [age 19] applying himself to the study of antiquities and archæology. I began about the same age; but it is very rare to find young men caring about the history of the past" (30th January 1867).
"I annex a list of my volumes; besides which, I have printed many articles in The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society's Memoirs; in The Journal of the British Archæological Association; The Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society's Transactions; The Archæologia Cambrensis; Chambers's Book of Days; &c. &c. I am also the 'Monkbarns' and 'Jonathan Oldbuck' of Country Words" (30th January 1867).
Mr Boulter was then collecting materials for his Bibliography of Hull, and hence the necessity of the preceding enumeration and list, which includes a pamphlet entitled
