The cheap Repository and Religious Tract Society will furnish tracts suited to all descriptions of persons; and for those who cannot read--why should you not institute a Sunday school to be taught by yourselves, and in which appropriate rewards being given for good behaviour, not only at school but through the week, great effects of a moral kind might soon be produced?
I have exhausted my paper, and must answer the rest of your letter in a few days.

In the meantime, I am ever your most affectionate father, ZACHARY MACAULAY.
A father's prayers are seldom fulfilled to the letter.

Many years were to elapse before the son ceased to talk loudly and with confidence; and the literature that he was destined to distribute through the world was of another order from that which Mr.Macaulay here suggests.

The answer, which is addressed to the mother, affords a proof that the boy could already hold his own.

The allusions to the Christian Observer, of which his father was editor, and to Dr.Herbert Marsh, with whom the ablest pens of Clapham were at that moment engaged in hot and embittered controversy, are thrown in with an artist's hand.
Shelford: April 11.