All well, though (with the exception of one from Fred) we have received no letters whatever by the _Caledonia_. We have experienced impossible-to-be-described attentions in Canada. Everybody's carriage and horses are at our disposal, and everybody's servants; and all the Government boats and boats' crews. We shall play, between the 20th and the 25th, "A Roland for an Oliver," "Two o'Clock in the Morning," and "Deaf as a Post." [Sidenote: Mr. Thomas Longman.] ATHENÆUM, _Friday Afternoon._ MY DEAR SIR, If I could possibly have attended the meeting yesterday I would most gladly have done so. But I have been up the whole night, and was too much exhausted even to write and say so before the proceedings came on. I have fought the fight across the Atlantic with the utmost energy I could command; have never been turned aside by any consideration for an instant; am fresher for the fray than ever; will battle it to the death, and die game to the last. I am happy to say that my boy is quite well again. From being in perfect health he fell into alarming convulsions with the surprise and joy of our return. I beg my regards to Mrs. Longman, And am always, Faithfully yours. [Sidenote: Miss Pardoe.] DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, YORK GATE, REGENT'S PARK, _July 19th, 1842._ DEAR MADAM, I beg to set you right on one point in reference to the American robbers, which perhaps you do not quite understand. The existing law allows them to reprint any English book, without any communication whatever with the author or anybody else. My books have all been reprinted on these agreeable terms. But sometimes, when expectation is awakened there about a book before its publication, one firm of pirates will pay a trifle to procure early proofs of it, and get so much the start of the rest as they can obtain by the time necessarily consumed in printing it. Directly it is printed it is common property, and may be reprinted a thousand times. My circular only referred to such bargains as these. I should add that I have no hope of the States doing justice in this dishonest respect, and therefore do not expect to overtake these fellows, but we may cry "Stop thief!" nevertheless, especially as they wince and smart under it. Faithfully yours always. [Sidenote: Mr. H. P. Smith.] DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, _Thursday, July 14th, 1842._ MY DEAR SMITH, The cheque safely received. As you say, it would be cheap at any money. My devotion to the fine arts renders it impossible for me to cash it. I have therefore ordered it to be framed and glazed.