I am the more astonished at this, since for various words of two, three and four letters, a distinct character was used for each, in order to prevent the discovery of some of those words, by their frequent repetition in a cryptograph of any length and applying them to other words. I also used a distinct character for the terminations _tion_ and _sion_, and substituted in every word where it was possible, some of the characters above alluded to. Where the same word of two of those letters occurred frequently, the letters of the key phrase and the characters were alternately used, to increase the difficulty. As ever, yours, &c. CHAS. S. FRAILEY. To F. W. Thomas, Esq. * * * * * [Illustration: LATEST FASHIONS, OCTOBER, 1841. FOR GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE] * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Available scans of the fashion plate were missing a caption so caption was added in the style of the fashion plates of the previous issues of this volume. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious punctuation and typesetting errors have been corrected without note. [End of _Graham’s Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 4, October 1841_, George R. Graham, Editor]