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15 hope he will know how to read soon. Papa is going to teach me to learn Latin on Friday. That will be to-morrow. T. W. MALKIN. October 31, 1799.

Extract from a Letter, dated Jan. 1800.

MY DEAR MOTHER,

the Illustrious Heads that I have seen, there was Catherine Howard, not Catherine Parr, and those were all queens of King Henry the Eighth; and Lady Jane Seymour, and Catherine of Arragon, and Elizabeth Plantagenet. But she was queen of Henry the Seventh, and daughter of Edward the Fourth. I saw Oliver Cromwell, too, and William Shakespeare, and Sir Isaac Newton. He was a very good man. In the third volume of my Evenings at Home,