‘Mr. Tucker I recall with grave respect, unmingled with awe, as evidently one of the wisest and most influential of my Parents’ proved friends. Mrs. Tucker retains an honoured place in memories of these and later days as the kindest and most liberal of “old aunts,”--so she desired me to designate her, and at once adopted me into her very large circle of favoured nephews and nieces,--the inexhaustible source of varied goodnesses, especially such as were of the most approved edible nature.