Peter's letters to his kinsfolk / [Signed Peter Morris i.e. J.G. Lockhart, assisted by Christopher North, i.e. John Wilson].

John Gibson Lockhart

Date:: 1820

Credit: Peter's letters to his kinsfolk / [Signed Peter Morris i.e. J.G. Lockhart, assisted by Christopher North, i.e. John Wilson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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DEDICATION. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVIDS. My Lorp, I trust you will excuse the liberty I take in inscribing to you a new edition of my Letters from Scotland. That none of these letters were addressed to your Lordship, is a circumstance for which I take great shame to myself, after the very kind manner in which you spoke to me on that head, the day I left you—may I be permitted to add, after the long ex- perience I have had of your Lordship’s concern and attachment, in several years of professional attend- . ance, and, since that was laid aside, of private inter- course and friendship. I must not attempt to deny, that there are some things in these Letters which are not exactly what I should have judged proper for your Lordship’s eye; but your Lordship is aware, that they were written

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