ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 1052, 6 November 1868, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WE DO NOT IDENTIFY OITBSBLVES TS AST WAT WITH TEE OPINIONS EXPBEBBBD BY OTTS COBBBSPONDENTS. • : ' '■■■ Sib, — I perceive, in your issue of yesterday, that Mr J. Gk Smith has made a long and very grevious complaint against me, for having " tampered," as he calif it, with a "literary production " of hie "in its passage from my study to the press." I regret exceedingly that I am now constrained — so long after the event too — to eat humble pie, and apologize to Mi J. Gr. Smith for " the very extraordinary and unwarrantable liberties' 1 which I took with the aforesaid ;" literary production " in its passage from his study to the press. I am sorry that Mr J. Gh Smith has taken the circumstance so much to heart, and I think that perhaps the best amende I can now make to Mr J. Gv Smith is to enclose you a correct copy of the "literary production" as placed in my hands, and request you to insert it perbatim et literatim. I am, Sir, ' Chis. D. levike. ISTovember sth, 1868. P.S.---When Mr J. Gt. Smith gave me his prologue, I stated in, answer to some observations of his, that I would revise it for him, but had. little, time to do so. I have to regret that I so much misunderstood his observations.