The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 8, July, 1836

THE
DEVOTED TO
Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au gré des vents. Crebillon's Electre . As we will, and not as the winds will.
RICHMOND: T. W. WHITE, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. 1835-6.

VOL. II. RICHMOND, JULY, 1836. NO. VIII.
T. W. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.


LETTER I.
As well as very bad implements and worse eyes will permit me to do it by candlelight, I will endeavor to make some return to your kind letter, which I received, not by Quashee, but the mail. I also got a short note by him, for which I thank you.