The poetic talk you set me in is a sad method. My head and heart are too full of other matters to be engrossed by a draggle-tailed wench of the Heliconian puddle. I am going to try my interest in Parliament. How you stare!--it is to procure a frank. Be so good as to give the enclosed to Honora; _it_ will speak to _her_. And do _you_ say everything that is kind for me to every _other_ distinguished friend of the dressing-room circle; encourage them in their obliging desire of scribbling in your letters, but don't let them take Honora's corner of the sheet. Adieu! May you all possess that cheerfulness denied to your _cher Jean_. I fear it hurts my mother to see my musing moods, but I can neither help nor overcome them. The near hopes of another excursion to Lichfield could alone disperse every gloomy vapor of my imagination. Again, and yet again, adieu! J. André. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 86: name of kindness, by which Mr. André was often called by his mother and sisters, and generally adopted by the persons mentioned in these letters.] [Footnote 87: The trees in the cathedral-walk in Lichfield.] [Footnote 88: _Field of blood._--Here is a small mistake. Lichfield is not the field of blood, but "the field of dead bodies," alluding to the battle fought between the Romans and the British Christians in the Diocletian persecution, when the latter were massacred. Three slain kings, with their burying-place, now Barrowcop Hill, and the cathedral in miniature, form the city arms. Lich is still a word in use. The church-yard gates, through which funerals pass, are often called Lich-gates, vulgarly Light-gates.] INDEX. A Adams, Alice, Hale's affianced, 21 (_note_). Alexander, William, Lord Stirling, 71 (_note_). American army on Manhattan Island, condition of, 11; on Harlem Heights--perils menacing the, 12. American cause, gloomy prospects for the, 79. Anderson, the fictitious name of Major André, 65.