Published in Chambers' Edinburgh Journal 22 September 1832. This column was possibly taken by the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle from the bound volume of Chambers' for 1832, published in 1833, in which both this column and the essay, 'Clever Women' (also published in the Chronicle issue of 10 March 1838), appear.
'A Boy's Letter' was also published in Hood's Comic Annual 1833, which Chambers' acknowledges. AustLit has not yet established which version (Hoods' or Chambers') was published first.