New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

later date we have this letter 10 his little girl;
My Dearest Nanny: Your letter has made me
and mamma very happy. and very sad, too. that
away from dearest little gir'S, But
! for one shall see you before very long, mop"
In week from this day, and only write now 20
wish you Happy New Year How gao l an, an,
that il is black "puss' and not black MISS
you have got. l thought you did not Know
how to spell nurse, and had spelt ii en-you-d0u-
ble-ess but | see the spelling gets better as lhe
letters grow longer they cannot be too long loi
me. Laura must be a very good -natured girl
| hope my dear Nanny is so, too, not mercy 10
her schoolmistress and friends. but to every,
body-to her servants and her nurses. wou.u
sooner have you gentle and humbe-mlnd"d Una"
ever SO clever Who born on Christmas
Day? Somebody Who was so great that all the
world worships Him; and so good that All tne
world loves Him: and so gentle ana nuiiipie
that He never spoke an unkind WORD ana
there is little sermon and great deai OF low
and affection from papa
Thackcray was thirty-siX years old and IN the
full tide OF his contributions to Punch" when
his daughters came to live with him in Young
st. He was delighted with his new home ana
there is a more cheerful note in his letters oil
this period Il have bought a boss, ana roe
in the Park with great elegance he writes 10
his brother-in-aw. Strange to say, hot kho"
Ing a horse from a COW. everybody says nave
got a most wonderful bargain. splehulu sup
per" etc The "hoss" was good Tor nm pu'
much better was the constant companionship OF
his children. The father sat in his STUDY busy
with his drawing board making his PICTURES lo'
Punch" and the two little girls working IN
the schoolroom above were -oVerJoNeu d' vi"
summons to serve as models They stood upon
chairs and held draperies and cast sH1uo"
,hev often rubbed out the failures from the
wood blocks and washed of the chalk' anu
Mrs Richie still remembers a dreadful ia!
when she washed away finIsheu u'aN'"e '''
which the messenger was at that moment wait
ing in the hall. The children read the ir"
Novelists" for real stories. and lonsed Tor 'he'h
to be finished instead Of always breaking OH
at the most interesting point Thackera\
wanted TO finish this series with Dickens ana
himself. but the propretors of Punch" refused
to let him publish the parody "i b''h'"' "
their columns-and SO ended the series. His scr
vice with Punch" lasted about ten !'afs' anu
then he resigned not sharing the papers views
or. certain political Questions. In c'hhe''l"'
with this period Mrs. Richie has suis'S''F'
raraprapb zone popularity" she says. '"hi.
has ALWAYS struck me in my father and "hic'
have never noticed IL an" one else I" XIV
same extent. was his personal interest III o'h'''
ord in th.ir actions He seemed to feel in q
+ measure rcsuonsihlc fol the doinSs Of any orc
he was concerned with. His admiration ana "''
J arurcciation were extraordinarily Keen I"l
things which he approved ana loved. IN ih'
same way. his feeling Of real suffering ana emo
ton over the failure and lapses o. ih"9' WIZ
whom ne lived was intensely Vi'id. TINS mace
his relations with others anxious al u"'- '
different. never"
The spirit in which this man did h's "'i'
is tenderly revealed in his daushic:S '''.''
lions but not less 60 in his Own "''''
hone" he wrote TO that kindred s'u'. Ut ''''
Brown. Of Edinburgh. Il may Dee abe To .''
truth always and sec II aligni "'''i'''r ~ ''
/ ewes which God Almighty gives me-