The following reply was received from Mrs. Cobden.
DUNFORD, MIDHURST, December 27, 1865.
MY DEAR MR. SUMNER,--On behalf of myself and my children,
I beg most kindly to thank you, and the members of the
Republican State Convention of Massachusetts, for the
resolutions, passed by them, of sympathy with us in our
terrible bereavement.
These resolutions are rendered more valuable by the letter
from yourself which accompanies them.
The expressions of sympathy and condolence which have
reached us from public bodies and private individuals, in
your and other countries, have been deeply grateful to
my stricken heart; for they assure me of the wide-spread
appreciation of the efforts of my beloved husband to
promote the cause of international prosperity and peace.
From America they are especially grateful; for his sympathy
with the cause of liberty to the slave was undoubted and
intense. And it was on his way to Parliament, to speak
on the Canadian question in its relation to the American
Union, that he contracted the illness which ended his dear
and noble life.
Pray accept the kindest remembrances of myself and
children, and believe me to remain,
My dear Mr. Sumner,
Yours very sincerely,