CORRESPONDENCE

OF

WILLIAM COWPER,
COWPER, ESQ.

WITH SEVERAL OF

HIS MOST INTIMATE FRIENDS.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS

IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS KINSMAN,

JOHN JOHNSON, LL.D.

RECTOR OF YAXHAM WITH WELBORNE IN NORFOLK.

THIRD EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL.

MDCCCXXXVII.

LIBRARY

S_P

392 A.

241=2152

8 24 C83 CJ

TO

JOSEPH FOSTER BARHAM, ESQ.

ALLOW me, dear Sir, in presenting to the Public these hitherto unprinted Letters of the poet Cowper, to indulge my privilege as an Editor, and the personal feelings by which I am actuated towards yourself, by inscribing them to you. The interest attached to the name of CowPER will, I trust, render this tribute of respect not unacceptable; while it gratifies me highly to have thus an opportunity of assuring you of the grateful regard and sincere esteem with which I subscribe myself,

My dear Sir,

your obliged and

affectionate friend,

J. JOHNSON.

Yaxham Parsonage, December 10, 1823.

WINMEZOLY

Lately Published,

MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.

THE FRIEND AND BIOGRAPHER OF COWPER,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

Handsomely printed in 2 vols. 4to., with portraits. Price 41. 4s.