The matter of seconds cannot, certainly, offer any difficulty. I had the pleasure of being first received in London by the St. George's Chess Club, of which you are so distinguished a member; and of those gentlemen I request the honor of appointing my seconds, to whom I give full authority in settling all preliminaries. In conclusion, I beg leave to state that I have addressed a copy of this letter to the editors of the _Illustrated London News_, _Bell's Life in London_, _The Era_, _The Field_, and _The Sunday Times_, being desirous that our true position should no longer be misunderstood by the community at large. Again requesting you to fix the date for our commencing the match, I have the honor to remain, sir, Your very humble servant, PAUL MORPHY. [Illustration: MR. STAUNTON. MR. BODEN. HERR LÖWENTHAL.] At the same time Mr. Morphy forwarded the following communication to the Secretary of the St. George's, requesting the Club to appoint his seconds in the match:-- MORPHY'S LETTER TO THE ST. GEORGE'S CLUB. T. HAMPTON, ESQ., _Secretary of the St. George's Chess Club_: SIR,--I beg respectfully to inform you that the New Orleans Chess Club has deposited £500 at the Banking House of Messrs. Heywood & Co., London: that sum being my proportion of the stakes in the approaching match with Mr. Staunton. I shall esteem it a great honor if the St. George's Chess Club will do me the favor of appointing my seconds in that contest. To such gentlemen as they may appoint I leave the settling of all preliminaries. May I request you to lay this communication before the members of the Club, and to oblige me with an early answer? I have the honor to remain, Sir, Your very humble and obed't serv't, PAUL MORPHY. CAFE DE LA REGENCE, PARIS, _Oct. 8th, 1858_. It would be difficult to imagine a more respectful and kindly letter than that to Mr. Staunton. Since Morphy's arrival in Europe he had considered himself ill-used by that gentleman. His games had been annotated in an inferentially depreciatory manner, his victories _accounted for_, and his antagonists excused. He had been placed in a ridiculous light before the public by the utterly false assertion that he had come to Europe to challenge Mr. Staunton or any one else--_without a groat in his purse_. And yet he never charges Mr. Staunton with being the author of the falsehood, although Mr. S. is the known editor of the chess column of the _Illustrated London News_. He positively invites explanation in the most charitable and Christian-like manner; never even calling the statement in question, as he might have done, a positive untruth, but politely characterizing it as "not strictly in accordance with fact."