LETTERS, AND POEMS

OF

BERNARD BARTON.

EDITED

BY HIS DAUGHTER.

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PHILADELPHIA:

LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON.

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MR. AND MRS. SHAWE,

OF

KESGRAVE HALL, SUFFOLK,

THE FRIENDS OF HER DEAR FATHER,

This Little Book is Dedicated,

WITH GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REGARD,

BY

THE EDITOR.

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PREFACE.

IN compiling the present little volume, it has been the wish of the Editor in some measure to carry out her dearest Father's favourite but unfulfilled design of an autobiography. It is with reference to this that both the Poems and Letters have been selected; and she begs to return her grateful thanks to the Publishers of his respective volumes, Messrs. Hatchard, Parker, Baldwin, Holdsworth, and Boys, for the readiness with which they have granted her the freedom of selecting what seemed most desirable; to Mr. Orr, for the kindness which has permitted her to avail herself of his purchased right in some of the Poems-and to Messrs. Virtue, for the liberality with which she has been allowed to glean so largely from his last published volume, "The Household Verses."*

*It is due to the Publishers of this last-named work to state, that the following Poems from its pages will be found in the present volume:-Sonnet to a Friend never yet seen, but corresponded with for above twenty years. To the Memory of Elizabeth Hodgkin.