Some Original Letters.

. ... As a good Welshman you Avill quite understand my hoping that the fighting may last in the neiv country as it did in the case of the Irish cats , and that when you come to tell the tails , I may be prosent . I trust that you will make an effort to return to our United States ; you Avill

find a very honest group happy to shake hands Avith you . " Ahvays sincerely yours , "E . LANDSEER . "

What can be more natural , and yet more genuinely delightful 1 Sydney Smith ' s letter is characteristic , just as Thackeray ' s is most amusing . We give them both : —

" Sir : I should have Avritten long since to hai'e thanked you for your apples , but I unfortunately lost your address , and it lately occurred to me that I could find you by means of our friend , Mr . B . The apples Lave been eaten Avith universal applause after I had assured the company that they

came from a solvent state . My opinion ( Avorth something , not much ) is that Pennsylvania A \ 'ill not pay . I heard my friend , Mr . Stokes , upon tho subject , but his facts and his arguments led me to conclusions A'ery opposite to his OAVU . I sincerelhope

y that you have only a theoretical interest in the subject . " Your obliged ancl obedient seiwant , "SYDNEY SMITH . " " January 14 th , 1844 , " Combe Florey , Taunton . "

" My Dear Morgan : As soon as I am a free man , be sure I shall come doAvn to street to look for a kind old friend to Avhom I OAve a letter of thanks for a box of old cigars , a most cordial shako of the hand , and a book , the last I ivrote , Avhich I brought from London with me expressl

y for E . E . Morgan , and in ivhich his name is at the present moment Avritten . Sir , I have been so busy that I haA'e been nowhere except to E . 22 d , Avhere I found you lived by the directory , ancl Avhen I got there AA'ith the books under my arm

and saAV the plate on the door , ' Good Heavens , ' I thought , 'these Americans turn their hands to everything ! Is it possible that , after having been a sea-captain , a farmer , a merchant , Morgan should IIOAV

be keeping a ladies school V But thoy told me it Avasn't you that kept the youno ladies' seminary , ancl that you didn't live in 2 2 d street any more . " Haven't I twenty more notes to Avrite this morning 1 " I send my best regards to Mrs . Morgan and tho young ones , and am , "Your ahvays , dear Morgan , " W . M . THACKERAY . "

Charles Dickens s must gratify all who hai'e a grateful remembrance of the writet of " Pickwick " and " Martin Chuzzlewit . " There is a heartiness about them quite catching , and a reality Avhich is very pleasant : —

"My Dear Morgan : Another box of cigars just received at this little oldfashioned country house of mine , perched on the very hill-top AA'here Falstaff ran aAvay ! You don't know , my dear felloiv , how often you are with me . Two or three times every weekas I light my cigar after

, dinner and sit CIOAVH in my study , or go out AA'alking ( according to the season ) to muse , I say , ' I Avonder Avhether Morgan Avill ever bring one of those big ships back , aud beam upon mo AA'ith the light of his bright face and hear me tell him the story

of the Ai'et loA'ers and the dry one I' God bless you and yours ! I heartily tell you that every short letter from you comes to me like a Avholesoine breeze from the other side of the Atlantic , giving me assurance that fine natures and sound hearts ivill

never die out of any land so long as the rainbow shines . . . . " I will inaugurate tho first chapter of the next book ( u'lienever it comes into life —it is in the land of shadoivs now , iuiknoAvn to mebut waiting to be born ) by

, fumigating it Avith a cigar reserved from this very box . " Faithfully yours , " CHARLES DICKENS . "

" Dear Friend : I am heartily obliged tc you for your seasonable and Avelcome remembrance . It came to the office ( while 1 ivas there ) in the pleasantest manuci . brought by tivo sea-fariug men as if the )' had swum across Avith . it . I have already told Avhat I am very AVCH assured ol concerning you , but you are such a noble