“My dear Friend,
“Above are my verses to Mrs. H., a copy of which,
addressed to her, I also enclose. I have not put my name to them, nor
avowed them as mine in their commencement, because, where my object is to
do honour to another, I would not, of myself, appear to be covertly seeking
it. But as my name, owing to thy early notice of it, and the subsequent
comments of the ‘Edinburgh
Review,’ as well as other Journals, is now known as that
of a Quaker Poet, I leave it entirely to thy discretion to introduce the
above trifle in such way as may appear to thee most likely to attract
attention to the article, if it seem to thee at all worthy of it. For the
sake of Mrs. Heman’s poetry,
which
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“Thine ever most truly,
