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 "Your truly affectionate, "I shall not forget the shells."

[The name had been written "L. E. Landon;" but the word ‘Landon' was erased, and that of ‘Maclean' substituted.] ——————
 * "You see how diſficult it is to leave off an old custom."

☞ The following are the last published pieces from the pen of the lamented Mrs. Maclean:

with an only child, The mother of our queen; A stranger in a foreign land, Thy lot has various been. How many claims attend with thee Upon a nations sympathy!

How many anxious watching hours Thy Mother's heart has known, Before the blossom was a flower— The orphan on a throne! Ah! may a glorious future wait On thee—thy child—and England's fate!

Yet on the haunted canvass dwells The beauty of that face, Which art's departed master held His sweetest task to trace; None see it but are prisoners held In its strong toil of grace.