Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk

is the greatest thing that has occurred in engraving since the time of Albert Durer. I have not seen any specimen of it, but do ask him to try some of the portraits in the new way say my own-for that is of least consequence.*

As I am just going over to Dublin to spend a few weeks with my brother Sam, I shall not be able to hear from you again about this matter-so I leave it with perfect confidence in your hands, and those of Mr Blackwood. I hear the cry for the book is great, particularly in the North; therefore do bestir yourselves, and have PETER out before the rising of Parliament.

* The portrait of Dr Morris is done in this new style; and had the time permitted, the others would all have been done so likewise. It is thrown off by the common printing-press, as the reader will observe-but this is only one of the distinguishing excellencies of this new and splendid invention of Mr Lizars. I am happy that my friend's book has the honour of being the first graced with a specimen of it; and not the less so that the specimen presents a capital likeness of my friend himself.

W. W.

I hope you won't allow next Autumn to go over, without coming down and paying a visit to some of your old friends in your native country-and I am vain enough to hope you won't omit us if you do come. I am an idler man, now-a-days, than I could wish to be; so do come, my dear sir; and if my good friend, Mr Cadell, could come with you, tanto melius ;—I shall do all I can to amuse you in the mornings; and, in the evenings, you shall both have as much as you please of what, I flatter myself, is not the worst claret in the principality, Between ourselves, I have a great desire to see you, as I have some thoughts of looking over my papers, and giving you Peter's Letters from Italy and Germany, in the course of the winter. Meantime, I remain, with great sincerity,

PENSHARPE HALL,

ABERYSTWITH.

Wednesday Evening.

Your friend,

PETER MORRIS.