I beg to be informed when your lordship comes to Richkins, by the first message you send to London, directed to Jervas's. I have only to add my most faithful services to the ladies ; to desire Mr. Lewis to think as well of me as he can of a man that writes verses half the year ; and to beg your lordship to believe I love you so very well as to be ashamed to find no better expression for myself than that of, my lord, I Your most obedient,

and most humble servant,

A. Pope.

Also a note of Cowper's, one of Chaiterton, Lord Nelson, Na-

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poleon, Sir Christopher Wren, Percy, the author of the ballads. Bishop Burnet, Kosciusko, &c., &c. Among the American autographs are those of William Penn and his sons, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, Francis Lovelace, Governor of New York in 1671, Jonathan Edwards, Increase and Cotton Mather, Washington, La Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Schuyler, Sterling, Arnold, and various other eminent characters.

The terrace in front of the house forms a fine promenade. The gardens are laid out in the French, and landscape styles. The grounds are ornamented with natural walks leading to various objects of interest, among which deserves to be noticed the ^^ rocking stone^^ This natural curiosity is a rock supposed to weigh about twenty tons, so nicely poised that

" A stripling's arm can sway A mass no host could move."

At a short distance from the house stands a neat Gothic church of stone. This edifice was erected in 1843, and consecrated to the service of Almighty God, by the name and style of Christ Church, Pelham, on the 15th of October, the same year.b The act of incorporation bears date 25th of September, 1843. Richard Morris and Henry Grenzebach, wardens, Isaac Rosevelt, George F.