D., who was employed for that purpose, and to superintend the publication generally.

CORKESPONDENCE.

The Legisktnre having recently placed the publication of the Documents collected by you in Europe, relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, under the direction of the Regents of the University, I have been instructed by the Committee of the Regents charged with the subject, to request you to prepare a General Introduction to that work, to be prefixed to the first volume, which is now nearly ready. Your agency in procuring the Documents of which this publication is composed, and your thorough knowledge of the whole subject, clearly point you out as the proper person to perform this service and the Committee hope that ;

your well known interest in this work will induce you to comply with their request. I add my own personal and earnest wishes that you will undertake this task, and am, with great consideration, Yours most truly, JOHN V. L. PRUYN, Chairman of the Commiiiee. John Romeyn Brodhead, Esq., &c., &c., <Scc., New -York.

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New-York, 1 July, 1856. Sir: I have received your letter of yesterday, in which, as Chairman of the Committee of the Regents of the University having the subject in charge, you request me to prepare an Introduction to the " Colonial History " of this State -- commonly so called -- to be prefixed to the first volume. The Committee, in making this request, have done me an honor which I highly appreciate, and for which I beg you to express to them my acknowledgments. Feeling, as is very natural under all the circumstances, a peculiar interest in the publication of this work, I shall not decline the flattering duty you have asked me to perform. It