"_Dear Sir,_--We, the undersigned, who have known you for many years, and some of whom have been long and intimately associated with you, desire to express to you and to your amiable and devoted wife our earnest and heartfelt congratulations on your golden-wedding day, the 2d of December, 1890. "We earnestly wish you both many years of health and happiness, enjoying the fruits of your useful and well-spent lives, and seeing on every side the wide-spreading development of the submarine telegraph enterprise in which you, Mr. Field, have labored so long, so zealously, and so successfully. This great work, pursued by you with unflagging energy and perseverance for many years, through the greatest difficulties and hinderances, has now become a first necessity of national and commercial life, and you have the profound satisfaction of knowing that its object and its results are, and ever have been, peaceable and beneficent in their character. "We ask you to accept this message of our good-will and good wishes, which will be sent to you both over and under the sea. Very faithfully yours, "Argyll, Frederic W. Farrar, Mouck, W. E. Gladstone, W. H. Russell, Douglas Galton, Tweeddale, Henry C. Forde, W. Andrews, H. Weaver, G. von Chauvin, J. H. Carson, Samuel Canning, Richard C. Mayne, C. W. Earle, Catherine Gladstone, J. S. Forbes, Caroline Roberts Van Wart, G. W. Smalley, Gerald Harper, William Barber, L. M. Rate, John Muirhead, George Draper, Richard Collett, W. Leatham Bright, Latimer Clark, R. T. Brown, F. A. Bevan, H. D. Gooch, W. Thomson, G. Shaw Lefevre, J. Russell Reynolds, John Pender, James Anderson, W. Cunard, William Ford, George Elliot, George Henry Richards, W. Shuter, Henry Clifford, Willoughby Smith, W. S. Cunard, Julius Reuter, H. A. C. Saunders, G. W. Campbell, H. M. Stanley, of Alderley, John H. Puleston, George Cox Bompas, James Stern, H. L. Bischoffsheim, Louis Floersheim, T. H. Wells, J. H. Tritton, W. H. Preece, C. V. DeSauty, George Grove, Jane Cobden, Thomas B. Potter, Charles Burt, Margaret Anderson, Robert C. Halpin, Edward Satterthwaite, Frank H. Hill, J. C. Parkinson, William Payton, Henry Dever, Kenneth L. M. Anderson, Charles W. Stronge, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Wells, John G. Griffiths, Robert Dudley, Emily F. Lloyd, Ch. Gerhardi, W. T. Ansell, Julian Goldsmid, John Chatterton, Frances Baillie, Constance Wilde, B. Smith, John Temple, Montague McMurdo, Philip Rawson." "WINCHESTER HOUSE, "50 OLD BROAD STREET, "LONDON, _December_ 3, 1890.