ΤΟ 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. |