"_My dear Mr. Field,_--I had a long search for you among the crowds at Westminster, after the service, when I found that you were not among those bound to the dean's lodging, but failed to find you, and I therefore write a line to thank you for having asked me to attend the service in memory of our great friend, as I was grateful for the opportunity to be again among so many of your countrymen, and to do honor to the memory of a most remarkable citizen. "I think Farrar's oration was excellent, and the place--the common shrine of so much of our past glories, to which both nations can equally look with pride--a very fitting one for the expression of our common mourning. "Believe me, dear Mr. Field, "Yours very truly, "LORNE." This is from Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock, of the Union Theological Seminary in New York: "I hardly need say how glad I am that such a service has been provided for. Your countrymen owe you much gratitude for the lead you have taken in the matter." It was after his return home this year that this telegraphic correspondence occurred between him and his brothers and Mr. George Bancroft, then at Newport: "Most hearty congratulations on your eighty-fifth birthday--congratulations which we hope to renew for many years to come. "DAVID, STEPHEN, CYRUS, and HENRY FIELD." "_Dear David, Stephen, Cyrus, and Henry Field_,--Thanks for your good-will, and when I am gone keep the departed traveller kindly in memory. "Ever yours, "GEORGE BANCROFT. "_6th October_." Mr. Field was again in London in 1886, and was at a dinner given on July 16th by the Liberal Club to Mr. Chesson, who, in his speech, said: "My personal acquaintance with Mr. Field dates back for more than twenty years--from the period when the first Atlantic cable was laid; and I had reason then, as I have had greater reason since, to admire his indomitable perseverance, his unwearied patience, and his great ability. I was for a time on board the _Great Eastern_ with him in 1866, when the Atlantic cable was successfully laid and permanent telegraphic communication established between the two continents. I saw him daily, and held constant social intercourse with him until the splicing of the shore end of the cable with the huge coil which filled the vast tank of the _Great Eastern_ took place; and I noticed that there was nothing in his demeanor to distinguish him from other persons on board, although when some of us cast wistful looks at the big tank we knew that it contained all his worldly goods, and, for aught he knew to the contrary, his fortune was destined to be buried, with the cable, at the bottom of the Atlantic."