I will be brief on this melancholy subject.

In the course of the last year I have lost two sweet children, a girl and a boy, at the ages of four and six and a half.

These innocents were the delight of our hearts, and beloved by everybody that knew them.

They were cut off in a few hours--one by the measles, and the other by convulsions; dying, one half a year after the other.

I quit this sorrowful subject, secure of your sympathy as a father and as my friend.
* * * * * My employment I find salutary to me, and of consequence in a pecuniary point of view, as my literary employments bring me no remuneration, nor promise any.