——1 came back last night. He is going to resign,
I am sorry to say. His wife has persuaded him. It is the weakest thing I ever
saw in him. I lose faith in man's firmness and woman's fortitude.
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1 One of his most valued officers.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 96
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