Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Friday, September 2, 1870, p. 2, col. 1

SAID Lady Franklin to Mrs. Grant, “Sir John is older than I, and I am near my end. He could not have liv[e]d in those frigid regions until now. The mystic North-west Passage will be his monument. Every-where during my American tour, your people have showered me with kindness, and I will return to old England, like Lafayette, with recollections only of a nation’s benedictions.”

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