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[Stationery: Pacific Theological Seminary. Oakland, Cal.,] June 1 : 1886.
Professor B. Moses,
My Dear Sir,
I do not see how I can get ready any paper for the July meeting of the Historical So-Ciety [Society]. I hope to have some vacation, and I may not be present at that meeting.
If there were any Special Subject for a paper, and one on which I might be supposed to be prepared, without much new investigation – I might possibly make the undertaking; but I do not think it proper to make any decided promise. I hope some one is better situated, if not better disposed.
Very Truly Yours,
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[Stationer: OFFICE OF [centered] A. J. BAYLEY, [centered] Dealer in General Merchandise, [centered] (Bayley's Ranch.) [centered] Pilot Hill, El Dorado Co., Cal.] [handwritten] Feby [February] 11th 1892.
Rev. J. A. Benton
My dear Friend
I have in my Diary of 1849. a Copy of the Poem, you composed and read at the last meeting of the Edward Everett – Company on the banks of the Mokelumine [Mokelumne] River in 1/49 [January, 1849]." Have you any objection for me to have it published in one of the Sacramento papers – I was reading it to-day [today] & think it very good. – Well do I remember the Eving [Evening] you deliv'ed [delivered] it. With many kind regards, from my wife & self
I am yours very Sincerely A. J. Bayley
"one of the Edward Everett Boys"
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Please return to me.
Oakland.
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An Appreciation
Joseph Augustine Benton, D. D. [centered] ------------------------ [centered Since the last meeting of the General Association this elder brother has been called from our Earthly fellow ship [fellowship] to the pres- ence fellowship of those who had preceded him into the presence of their Lord.
Our commendation is little needed in behalf of one who has already heard his Master's voice, saying, "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord," but it is fitting that we recall, briefly, the life and labors of such an [a] one, and place on record our appreciation of what he was and of what he – did while among us.
Dr. Benton was born in Guilford, Conn. [Connecticut] May 7, 1818. He was a son of Daniel and Fanny Ledyard (Eliot) Benton, his Mother being a lineal descendant of John Eliot, the "Apostle to the Indians." Both his parents were possessed, of sterling Christian character.