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Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century (1817)
Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century - 1817 Author:John Nichols Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the favour of having transcripts of; which when obtained, you will be so good as to employ a proper transcriber, whom I shall be careful to satisfy for his labou... more »r. You must know I am a great Antiquary; though I make no words of it; as half ashamed of my taste; like a man who has taken an odd fancy to an ugly mistress. I am, with true esteem, dear Sir, your most affectionate friend and faithful humble servant, W. Gloucester. LETTER LVIII. To the Rev. Dr. Birch. Dear Sir, Prior Pm-Jt, June 16, 1765. Sir David Dalrymple is about publishing a new edition of Williams's tract of " The Holy Table, name and thing." He has desired me to procure him a transcript of some papers relating to that matter at Oxford and Cambridge, which I have wrote for. I see in his list of these things from the " Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Anglia," fol. 160.7, there is one article—Lib. MSS. Bibliothecse Sloanensis, p. 107, 4132, a character of Bp. Williams. If you will be so good to get this transcribed for me, I shall very thankfully pay the expence. I am, dear Sir, your very affectionate and faithful humble servant, W. Gloucester. LETTER LIX. To the Rev. Dr. Birch. Dear Sir, Prior Park, Nov. 7, 1765. In a letter I received from Mr. Hurd, he told me he had the pleasure of dining with you the other day. He said, you had a purpose of quitting the Secretaryship of the Royal Society: if it be on account of ill health, I shall be extremely concerned ; if it be VOL. II. I. . to preserve you from that misfortune, and continue you in good, I shall much applaud your resolution : for I interest myself in your welfare both on your own account and the publick's, being, with the greatest esteem, dear Sir, your affectionate and faithful friend and humble servant, W. Gloucester. DR. HEB...« less