Excerpt from Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, Vol. 2 of 3: Author of "Letters From the Mountains," "Memoirs of an American Lady," Etc My dear Bar, I am this morning informed of your great misfortune in the death of your brother; and I do not write to bid you grieve less. Religion, the only sure medicine of hurt minds, is yours; tender and generous feelings for others are also yours, which do not permit the mind to settle in solitary sorrow, while so many others are, as it were, purified by fire in the furnace of affliction. Imagination is also yours - that active faculty mercifully bestowed by a gracious Providence as a counterbalance to the evils arising from too keen sensibility; and - though last, not least - the invaluable privilege of retaining the consoling remembrance that every possible tribute of affection has been paid to the lamented dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.