The Life of Horace Binney With Selections From His Letters
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Hence apparently not a single letter written to him is still in existence, and, while many which he himself wrote remain, most of them were written in the last sixteen years of his life. For that period they furnished the chief record, and the more important ones are given in the pages that follow. When Mr. Binney 's oldest son visited Europe in 1854, he made the acquaintance of Sir John Taylor Coleridge (then, and until his retirement in 1858, a justice of the Queen's Bench) and his son, after...wards Lord Chief Justice of England, an acquaintance which rapidly developed into very warm friendship. After his return he sent Sir John copies of some of his father's writings. Their perusal led Sir John to write to Mr. Binney himself, and gradually a cor- 1859] CORRESPONDENCE respondence sprang up between them, ceasing only at Mr. Binney's death. Considering that the writers had never actually met, this correspondence was remarkably free from formality and reserve; but Mr. Binney was on his part pre disposed to friendship with the judge, remembering very clearly the refined, thoughtful face and judicial bearing, which had strongly impressed him when he saw Coleridge in his place on the bench twenty years before.
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