Prefatory Notice
Many of the following- Letters were forwarded too late to secure their insertion in the proper order of their dates. The Letter, for instance, addressed to Mrs. Dunlop (p. 131) had passed through the press some weeks before that important series with which the Volume closes, and of which it should have formed a part, came into the Editor’s hands. He trusts that this explanation may be accepted as an apology for any want of orderly arrangement that the Volume may present,
EDINBURGH, May 1853.
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