the early history of our profession is written, and have determined
to take a little relaxation from chamber reading, which has
seriously injured my health. If my modest finances can bear a two
months' journey, and a residence at Paris, I propose to remain
there that period.

"Will you have the kindness to send me a letter of introduction to
Lord Bobtail, our ambassador? My name, and your old friendship
with him, I know would secure me a reception at his house; but a
pressing letter from yourself would at once be more courteous, and
more effectual.

"May I also ask you for my last quarter's salary? I am not an
expensive man, my dear father, as you know; but we are no
chameleons, and fifty pounds (with my little earnings in my
profession) would vastly add to the agremens of my continental
excursion.

"Present my love to all my brothers and sisters. Ah! how I wish
the hard portion of a younger son had not been mine, and that I
could live without the dire necessity for labor, happy among the
rural scenes of my childhood, and in the society of my dear sisters
and you! Heaven bless you, dearest father, and all those beloved
ones now dwelling under the dear old roof at Sizes.

"Ever your affectionate son,

"Algernon.

"THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF CRABS, &c.,