It is at the printers.

Polly sends her love.
"Ever faithfully yours, "G.H.L." * * * * * He writes again, dating his letter 1st January, 1866, but post-marked 1865.

It is singular, that the date as given by the writer, 1866, must have been right, and that given by the post-mark, 1865, wrong.

And the fact may possibly some day be useful to some counsel having to struggle against the evidence of a post-mark.

The letter commences:-- * * * * * "MY DEAR TROLLOPE,--A happy new year to you and Bice! [It is quite impossible that Lewes could have so written, while my wife, Theodosia, so great a favourite with both him and his wife, and so constantly inquired for tenderly by them, was yet alive.