In the midst of the great sadness caused by the loss of a dear brother with whom my life was intimately linked, there came to me a movement of joy and happiness. I owe it, my dear and venerable Doctor, to the happy news of your arrival in your country and especially to the consoling and sublime thought of the homage paid to your virtues and good deeds by a free people who owes you its liberty, the laws that will protect it, and the example of the virtues that make it worthy of it. If ever the dignity of the human race has been felt, if ever glory and happiness can be tasted by a wise man, a friend of humanity, this is what you must have felt, it is what we felt upon seeing those addresses transcribed here from your public papers. I need to hold onto the hope, my dear Doctor, that I shall not be forgotten by a man whom I have so sincerely admired for such a long time that he will permit me to send him my best wishes for the prosperity of his country and especially for himself. And may he kindly accept from time to time the expression of my unchanging feelings and my tender memories.