Robert Merry's museum, Volumes III-IV (1842)Various
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Robert Merry's museum, Volumes III-IV (1842)
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Children's literature -- Periodicals
As I am about to be absent for a few months, I must beg my
correspondents to excuse me, if they do not see in the Museum a
regular attention to their requests. For the present, however, let me
say, that I have received the letter of B....., dated Boston, April 7;
of M. A. R----l, North Bangor; of F., from Nantucket; of M. Hale,
Homersville, N. Y.; of Julia’s brother Jo, Elm Cottage; of G. Q.; of
W. N., of Boston; two letters from L. R. T., N. York; one from J. D.
C., Yarmouth; one from E. M. H., Malden; one from S. C. Morse,
Burlington, Vt.; one from W. B. C----, and some others.
I offer my thanks to Thomas L. S. for his suggestions. He refers to a
conundrum on the 120th page of vol. II. of the Museum, which states
that there is a chapter in the Bible of which it is impossible to read
three verses without crying. He says it is the 117th Psalm, and my
readers can see if he is right. The following story which Thomas tells
is pleasing.
I was showing my little sister (three years old) the
picture of Mt. Vesuvius, in your last “Museum,” and wishing
to find her ideas on the subject, I asked her, “Is that
mountain on fire?” “No,” said she. “What makes it smoke
then?” said I. “Why,” said she, looking up into my face
with a glance I cannot describe--“why, there is a stove in
the mountain!”
The following letters tell their own tale; the first is from a very
young subscriber.
_Hartford, June 1st, 1842._
MR. MERRY:
I have been a reader of your Museum ever since it has been
published, and I like it very much. I was quite pleased with
the stories of Brusque and the Siberian Sable-Hunter, and
should like to see them continued. I was also interested in
those stories of Peter Parley’s; and the puzzles have amused
me much. I was glad to find so many in the June number.
I have found out three of them, and believe they are
correct; the third is _Peter Parley_, the fifth _Wooden
Leg_, and the sixth _Robert Merry_.
MARY F.
_Newburgh, May 4th, 1842._
DEAR MR. MERRY:
I take this opportunity of writing you a few lines, to let
you know how I like your Museum. I have taken it for the
last year, and I intend to take it as long as it is
published, if nothing happens to prevent me. I long to see
the rest of the Siberian Sable-Hunter, and Philip Brusque,
and Peter Parley’s stories. If the little black and
blue-eyed boys and girls only knew how interesting this
little book is, they could not help subscribing for it. What
boy or girl is there that cannot save one dollar a year? I
have asked several of my friends to subscribe for it, and I
hope that, before long, I can send some subscribers for
Robert Merry’s Museum.
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