We will endeavor to comply with the request so pleasantly made in the following letter, in relation to the stars, but our little friend must give us time. The stars are a great way off, and we do not hear from them by every mail. Beside, Bob Merry “has a good many fish to fry,” and in order to make matters go right, he is obliged to let everything take its turn. Will you be patient, Dick? _Lexington, January 17th, 1844._ MR. MERRY: DEAR SIR,――I have been taking your Museum for some time, and I like it very much. I am sorry to have to make the same complaint that some of your other subscribers have made; that is, I do not, sometimes, get my Museum soon enough. I would be glad if you would give us a simple account of the stars, and other heavenly bodies. I have read the first part of Bill Keeler’s story about poor Tom Trudge and his wife, and I think it is quite laughable. I hear that almost all the great men of the country have been invited to this place or that, and I heartily wish that you would come and pay your little western subscribers a visit. You will not find yourself as much a stranger to us, as even your neighbor Hon. John Quincy Adams. My dear Mr. Merry――won’t you come to the west? Of all the countries you’ve been in, you’ll like it the best. Here you’ll find many little ones, black-eyed and blue, And a good many grown ones, I rather guess, too, Who will give you a welcome, and plenty to eat; For if you do not like favors, you surely like meat. O, there’d be such a racket and waving of caps, Such forgetting of rulers, of masters and maps! All over the country there’d be a turn-out, And all would join in a general shout. “For your great men I’ll give not a fig nor a cherry―― O, here is our good friend, the kind Mr. Merry.” For there’s not a log cabin in all the broad west, That has not of your stories, the rarest and best. Your affectionate friend and subscriber, RICHARD P. H. ―――― _Portsmouth, February 20th, 1841._ MR. MERRY: I am a new subscriber to your Museum, and so far I like it very much. I take pleasure in studying out your _puzzles_, and as you have had but one this year, I thought I would make one, and if you think it worth insertion, you can insert it.