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AN APPRECIATION.
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or even such faithful appreciation as I have here sought to give. But, though this be so, I have not chosen that my friend's memory should be only that of a climber killed in the pursuit of a perilous pastime, without some further attempt to show what manner of man he was. And no one, of the few who knew him as well or better than I, will think for one moment that I have appraised his qualities of character too highly.

JOHN A. HOBSON.

Limpsfield,
June 20, 1908.