CHEF d’ŒUVRE du PEINTRE DIVIN.--La lettre que vous m’avez conjuré de
détruire, sur laquelle j’avais inscrit ces mots, “Non e per me più
felità,” c’est brulée. Celà m’a beaucoup coûté, puisqu’elle nous liait
mystérieusement ensemble, mais je vous obéis. Ma vie m’est sans
intérêt. Mon attachement augmente. Avez vous observé l’annonce
antécédente?--PUISQUE.
709.--_Saturday, June 21, 1856._
HAMPSTEAD-HEATH ENCLOSURE.--Wake up, and PETITION PARLIAMENT.
710.--_Saturday, June 21, 1856._
PUISQUE.--I wish to be assured my letter is destroyed. ADDRESS me by my
initials, Yes or No, certainly.
711.--_Saturday, June 21-25-28, 1856._
NOTHING of later date than 21st March received, consequently much
anxiety. Your brother is returned. For you three, since that sent you on
the 7th April.--Sibella. June 18.
712.--_Tuesday, June 24, 1856._
A. to B.--1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, YES. 6, 13, 14, 16,
17, No.--June 21, 1856.
713.--_Tuesday, June 24, 1856._
SOIR de CLAUDE LORRAINE.--Je suis convaincu qu’une annonce portant mon
nom adopté, et avec référence à un sujet qui nous régardait, ne
provenait pas de vous. Je l’attribue, donc, ou à quelque désir de me
tendre une piége, ou à une coincidence incroyable, et presqu’
impossible.--Sempré il stesso.
714.--_Tuesday, June 24, 1856._
MANCHESTER.--Only just before your letter reached my hotel in London I
obtained fresh light from the public documents upon the great question
in which we are both engaged. Prices do not fluctuate much (especially
cotton), because the annexation question (which chiefly affects us),
though complicated (look at Marcy’s note), may probably be finished, if
a proper mediator can be found. And why not? Answer this. It is
understood on both sides that the independence of the Parent State is to
be maintained; and, if necessary, vindicated, notwithstanding internal
cabal and unwarranted external intrigue and interference, which latter
is, after all, the chief cause of the misunderstanding between the
Powers. Your ’cuteness, I see, distances pretty considerably my
slowness, distracted as I am with the States’ affairs; but Weasel is not
caught twice in the same trap. Address as before.
715.--_Tuesday, June 24, 1856._
PUISQUE.--A reply so headed in this morning’s paper is not mine. I have
not replied at all until now, and shall not do so again in this manner.
Some mistake, or curiosity, or worse perhaps. WRITE to me, name in full,
post-office, giving an address: I will reply, giving you one, then there
can be no more mistakes. Do this at once. Grief and anxiety are rapidly
doing their work. My idol is indeed a rare combination of tenderness,
talent, and every virtue. Love and admiration still contend, represented
now by two sweet cherubs.--Ever YOUR OWN; June 21, 1856.
716.--_Saturday, June 28, 1856._
TOM came ashore yesterday, in the bark Hope, and wrote directly. He is a
shy, odd fellow, rather slow, but thoroughly honest, very like Parson
Adams.--June 27, 1856.
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