On Sept. 16th I received Simms's assurance that he was hastening the Mural Circle.

On Oct. 9th Simms says that he will come with the circle immediately, and Jones on Sept. 29th says that he will make some alteration in the equatoreal: thus there was at last a prospect of furnishing the Observatory properly.

"The Equatoreal mounting which Troughton and Simms had been preparing for Sir James South's large telescope had not entirely succeeded.

I have various letters at this time from Sheepshanks and Simms, relating to the disposition which Sir James South shewed to resist every claim till compelled by law to pay it.

Mr Richardson (one of the Assistants of Greenwich Observatory) and Mr Simms recommended to me Mr Glaisher, who was soon after appointed, and subsequently became an Assistant at Greenwich.

On Jan. 5th I received notice from Simms that he had received payment (£1050) for the Mural Circle from the Vice-Chancellor.

On Feb. 4th I have letters about it from Sheepshanks and Simms.

I went to London, I believe for the purpose of trying the mounting of South's telescope, as it had been strengthened by Mr Simms by Sheepshanks's suggestions.

The award, which was given in December, was entirely in favour of Simms.

On Oct. 21st F.W. Simms, one of the Assistants (who apparently had hoped for the office of First Assistant, for which he was quite incompetent) resigned; and on Dec. 4th I appointed in his place Mr James Glaisher, who had been at Cambridge from the beginning of 1833, and on Dec. 10th the Admiralty approved.

"In regard to the Northumberland Telescope, I had for some time been speculating on plans of mounting and enclosing the instrument, and had corresponded with Simms, A. Biddell, Cubitt, and others on the subject.

the Northumberland telescope I was engaged with Simms about the clockwork from time to time up to Apr. 30th, and went to Cambridge about it.

"Ripley scholarships to George Simms Lennox, New York city; John Fiske, Brookville, Mississippi; Carleton Sharp Eaton, Milton, Massachusetts; William George Woodruff, Portland, Maine.

" "The Rev. Wilbur Fisk, D.D., late President of the (Methodist) Wesleyan University in Connecticut'The New Testament enjoins obedience upon the slave as an obligation due to a present rightful authority.'" "Rev. E.D. Simms, Professor in Randolph Macon College, a Methodist Institution'Thus we see, that the slavery which exists in America, was founded in right.'

[Footnote 18: Letters of Hammond to William Gilmore Simms, Jan. 27 and Mch. 9, 1841.

" [Footnote 6: Letter of Hammond to William Gilmore Simms, Jan. 21, 1841, from Hammond's MS. copy in the Library of Congress.]

Rogers' lemon.'" Maryland Sept. 28, 1937 Stansbury DENNIS SIMMS, Ex-slave.

Born on a tobacco plantation at Contee, Prince Georges County, Maryland, June 17, 1841, Dennis Simms, Negro ex-slave, 628 Mosher Street, Baltimore, Maryland, is still working and expects to live to be a hundred years old.

He has one brother living, George Simms, of South River, Maryland, who was born July 18, 1849.

His fourth wife, Eliza Simms, 67 years old, is now in the Providence Hospital, suffering from a broken hip she received in a fall.

" Simms' work at Contee was to saddle the horses, cut wood, and make fires and sometimes work in the field.

From Mr. Simms, the veteran organist of St. Michaels, Coventry, she received lessons in music, although it was her own fine musical sense which made her in after years an admirable pianoforte player.

Illustrated by E. Simms Campbell.

By Johnny Gruelle, artist: Ethel Hays (Ethel Hays Simms) © 9Oct47; A19800.

In Charleston, in my school days, and afterward, I had read Gilmore Simms's scouting stories with, eagerness, and had worshipped his Witherspoon.