"A painfull work it is I'll assure you, and more than difficult; wherein what toyle hath been taken, as no man thinketh, so no man believeth, but he that hath made the triall." ANT. à WOOD's Preface to his Hist. of Oxford. 616.942 Uph 90% ΤΟ DAWSON TURNER, ESQ. OF YARMOUTH, A.M. F.R.A. & L.S. HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY DEAR SIR, THE approbation which you have early testified in favour of the plan of this Topographical Index prompts me to hope that the hithertovacant niche in that department of English Bibliography may thus be usefully filled for the assistance of Collectors of County History; by whom should these volumes be favourably received, I shall still consider the work much indebted for a 578810 such approbation to your friendly advice and cheering encouragement. In thus availing myself of the sanction of your name, and in returning thanks for a permission so flattering to my self-esteem, I cannot be unmindful of the high gratification that must always result from an acquaintance and social intercourse with one whose botanical and antiquarian researches and scientific collections, joined to the taste and urbanity of his amiable and accomplished family, render his home a constant scene of literary and domestic happiness. With sentiments of the most grateful friendship I subscribe myself, Dear Sir, Your very obliged and faithful humble servant, LONDON INSTITUTION, January 1, 1818. WILLIAM UPCOTT. |