We have many letters on hand, not seeming to require a particular reply; we hope this acknowledgment will be sufficient for all our unanswered correspondents. * * * * * _Providence, April 7, 1843._ MR. ROBERT MERRY: SIR――You will oblige a large number of yearly subscribers, if you will put some music in your Museum. We have seen only one piece of music in all the numbers that you have issued for the year 1843. If you will put a piece of flute music in your next number, you will oblige a number of your Providence friends. They set a great deal by your work here, and if you would put a piece of music in it, you would have a great many more subscribers. We shall do all in our power to get you some, and we presume many others will. Mr. J. E. Risley is your agent here; he says he is doing very well. We remain your interested and obligated friends, GEORGE J――――s. | JACOB P――――n. CHARLES J――――s. | JOSEPH W――――d. JOHN BROWN F――――s. | J. H――――s. * * * * * _Sandwich, April 10, 1843._ MY DEAR FRIEND MERRY. I am very much pleased with your Museum, and I hope your stories may do me good. I am going to Boston soon, and I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you. I like the story of the Siberian Sable-Hunter, and Thomas Trotter, very much. I go to school all the time now, and my time is so taken up with my studies that I hope you will pardon me when I say that I have not yet read quite the whole of Philip Brusque. I feel sorry for this, but I am not yet ten years old. I hope you will allow me to say, and take it kindly, that I am often much disappointed in not getting my number in season. Many little girls get theirs sooner than I get mine; and I wish you would say to those who have the care of sending the Magazine to the various subscribers, that I should like to have mine sent sooner, and directed to _me_ instead of my father. I have tried to get subscribers for you, but have not succeeded; but I will try again during this volume,――for I think you offer a handsome reward. I have been much pleased with your allegories, and particularly with the Garden of Peace, and I hope they will make a good impression on my mind, and I have no doubt it was your design they should. I am sorry we do not have painted pictures in the Museum now, for it made the Natural History more interesting. I must tell you, when they bound my numbers, they kept all my painted pictures, and did not put them into the volume which they bound. This grieves me much, and I thought I would tell it to you. I have a little sister, almost three years younger than myself, and she