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Rh we now subjoin. The tone of them is too lively, pointed, and characteristic, not to be welcomed by every reader who may take an interest in the familiar writings of L. E. L. Though thus inserted out of place, the period at which they were written will be inferred from some of the subjects incidentally adverted to.

"Good, bad, or indifferent, my dearest Anna, I intend giving you a full and particular account of all my news, adventures, &c, I hope you are not particular as to quality, for truly nothing extraordinary has befallen me. I have been a little sullen and a little sick: the first was want of money, and the last, as they say in riddles, arose from my first. I am happy to tell you, that two pale pink cheques, inscribed with a name at once 'so dreaded and so dear,' (what lover's name will ever make my breast beat as does that of Messrs. Longman?) these, with one prescription of your father's have completely restored that happy equilibrium which constitutes health; and I am under no present apprehensions that the professors of the 'London' will be enabled to demonstrate from my skull the origin of sense and sensibility. I beg you to observe the technicalities of my language; I have not read the 'Magazine' for nothing; I am grown so learned on the transmigration of plants, that I made a sweet youth start and draw his chair three paces from mine at dinner in consequence. No smile could restore my lost ground, and we preserved a reverential distance during the dessert.

Sois married! Saturday last shone on white gloves, and whiter satin. I had a note from her, literally overflowing with happiness. I feel inclined to ask Solomon’s question—'What is sweeter