_To the Editor._
Sir,--Having had the happiness and honour of holding correspondence with
that most benevolent man, Mr. Peter Hervé, whose death I deeply deplore,
I shall feel myself relieved from a debt due to his memory, if you will
allow me, through the medium of your valuable publication, to express my
hope that he was not, in the time of need, forgotten by that society of
which he was the honoured founder. His last letter told me he was ill
and in distress; and had been advised to try the air of the south of
France, with scarcely any means of pursuing his journey but by the sale
of his drawings. My own inability to serve him made me hesitate; and I
am shocked to say, his letter was not answered. I am sorry, but
repentance will not come too late, if this hint will have any weight
towards procuring for his amiable widow, from that admirable
institution, a genteel, if not an ample independence: for certain I am,
that he could not have made choice of any one who had not a heart
generous as his own.