54 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
(Charles Heavysege to Charles Lanman.) 
Montreal, Feb. 11, 1861. 
Dear Sir,—Although so long deferred, allow me to perform a duty as well 
as a pleasure by expressing my sincere thanks to you for your able and 
judicious notice of me and mine in the New York Evening Post. I cannot 
imagine your selections to have been better made, for the limited space at 
your command (a remark which has also been made by others). I fear that 
in the States these are scarcely times to pay attention to literary perform- 
ances, but your kind notice cannot but have effected its purpose; indeed, 
immediately upon its appearance, I received a communication from one of its 
readers. ‘ 
Once more, then, permit me to thank you, and also to hope that the 
political tempest in which, I suppose, you at present live, move, and have 
your being, may not to your ears entirely drown this breath of acknowledg- 
ment, so that it pass by you as the idle wind that you regard not. With 
respects to yourself and Mrs. Lanman, and hoping to be continued amongst 
your correspondents, believe me, 
Your truly, 
CHARLES HEAVYSEGE. 
(Charles Heavysege to Charles Lanman.) 
Montreal, L.C., Oct. 2, 1865. 
My Dear Sir,—If it is pleasant to make new friends, it is still more agree- 
able to find that we yet retain the old ones. 
Such a pleasure you have just afforded me in offering to follow up in the 
“Round Table ” the article in the Atlantic, entitled ‘‘ The Author of ‘ Saul.’ ” 
To that end I have great pleasure in presenting you with a copy of ‘ Jeph- 
thah’s Daughter’ and of the ‘ Shakespeare Ode.” Of course, the idea of 
remitting me the money for these is a jest. I must, indeed, ask your pardon 
for having neglected to send you a copy of them at the time of their 
publication. 
You ask me to tell you all about myself. Believe me, sir, there is no one 
to whom I would sooner do so. Yet what I could with propriety communicate 
might not, at present, so much interest the public. What they would wish 
to learn is something about my works, and of course your aim would be to 
make them acquainted with them, according as you think these labours 
deserve. 
The few facts of a biographical nature given in the Atlantic are generally 
correct, and I still remember the writer’ calling upon me one morning for a 
few minutes as he states. You will not have quite forgotten my accidental 
interview with yourself at the house of Mr. Stephens. What I have through- 
out my life had most to regret has been, and now is, a want of leisure to 
devote to practical pursuits. You will know that to be the reporter and local 
editor of a daily newspaper” does not permit of the seizing of those inspired 
moods, which come we know not how, and leave us we know not wherefore. I 
have been for the last five years engaged in the daily press of this city, with 


1 Bayard Taylor. 2 He was then on the Montreal Witness. 
