this letter off by the �22nd. Our friends, the Sharplesses, sailed then. I was prevented by many interruptions to send you this before this week's mail. Please direct in future to the care of James W. Tacker, Banker, Bartholomew House, Barthol- omew Lane, London—the letters will always reach us through

JAMES ROSS, LATINIST. Two years ago, when the history of old Franklin College was written, we were greatly in want of information concerning the personal history of Prof. James Ross, who was a teacher in that institution one hundred years ago. We had of course, the brief no- tices contained in the