_I wrote this Address with the intention of dedicating it to you, as
a simple but hearty acknowledgment by a sanitary student, himself well
ripened in the work, of your pre-eminent position as the living leader
of the sanitary reformation of this century.
The favour the Address has received indicates notably two facts: the
advance of public opinion on the subject of public health, and the
remarkable value and influence of your services as the sanitary
statesman by whom that opinion has been so wisely formed and directed.
In this sense of my respect for you, and of my gratitude, pray accept
this trifling recognition, and believe me to be,
Ever faithfully yours_,