TO
WILLIAM HOWARD GARDINER
AND
WILLIAM AMORY.
We are more than once mentioned together in the last testamentary dispositions of our friend, as persons for whom he felt a true regard, and to whose affection and fidelity he, in some respects, intrusted the welfare of those who were dearest to him in life. Permit me, then, to associate your names with mine in this tribute to his memory.
GEORGE TICKNOR
