Richardson’s Correspondence With Thomas Edwards
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2022
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Thomas Edwards to Richardson
Friday 2 December 1748
MS: FMXII, 1, f. 4. Copy in an undetermined hand.
MS Bodl. 1011, 76. Autograph retained copy.
Endorsement: Mr Edwards (in SR's hand).
December 2nd. 1748
Not even you, Dear Sir, with your fine and strong imagination, can easily conceive how happy you have made me by your kind present; I had just given the former volumes another reading with fresh pleasure, and was repining that it could not be till February next (as I thought from the Hint you dropped when I last had the pleasure of seeing you) that I should be able to read the remainder of that valuable work; I envied our good Friend the Speaker the privilege of seeing it sheet by sheet as it came from the press; and yet at the same time my impatience would ill have brooked having it retailed to me in such niggardly portions; and I should have thought every Post as tedious as a tired horse. In the midst of these reflections it was the most agreeable surprise to receive the three remaining volumes, which I go to with so much eagerness, that I can hardly have the manners to stay to thank you for them, but I do it most heartily again and again, both for producing such a work, and for the distinction you give me by the present. And now wishing all manner of happiness to you and your’s, I hasten to my Dear Clarissa, and am Your very much obliged and Obedient Servant,
Tho. EdwardsThomas Edwards to Richardson
Thursday 26 January 1749
MS: FMXII, 1, ff. 5–6. Copy in an undetermined hand.
MS Bodl. 1011, 103–4. Autograph retained copy.
First Printing: Barbauld, Correspondence, III, 1–3 (1804).
Endorsement: Tho. Edwards, Esq; (in SR's hand).
Jany. 26th. 1748/9
I find, Dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgments to the Author of the Divine Clarissa till I can meet with words that will fully express what I think and feel on that Subject, I must for ever seem either insensible or ungrateful.
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- Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards , pp. 179 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013