Vol. II.--51.
~Note.~
Under severe affliction I cannot make up this sheet as I wish. This day
week my second son was brought home with his scull fractured. To-day
intelligence has arrived to me of the death of my eldest son.
The necessity I have been under of submitting recently to a surgical
operation on myself, with a long summer of sickness to every member of
my family, and accumulated troubles of earlier origin, and of another
nature, have prevented me too often from satisfying the wishes of
readers, and the claims of Correspondents. I crave that they will be
pleased to receive this, as a general apology, in lieu of particular
notices, and in the stead of promises to effect what I can no longer
hope to accomplish, and forbear to attempt.