mendation, whether the price of two-pence, or the unfavourable season of their first publication, hinders the demand, no boast can be made of it. The author (who thinks highly of your writings) is obliged to you for contributing your endeavours; and so is, for several marks of your friendship, Good Sir, Your admirer, and very humble servant, E. CAVE LETTER LETTER FROM LORD ORRERY ΤΟ MR. RICHARDSON. TO MR. RICHARDSON. Marston House, near Frome, in Somersetshire, Nov. 9, 1753. SIR, By means of Mr. Leake, I yesterday received your most valuable present. Give me leave to thank you, not only in my own name, but in the name of my whole family. Yet, I own, we thank you for sleepless nights and sore eyes, and perhaps, there are aching hearts and salt tears still in reserve for us. I wish your gift might have been to a more useful servant; but, as I feared, so I found it impossible to be the important friend I most heartily wished myself*. However, I was happy in receiving your commands; and I hope my ill success will not hinder you from giving me opportunity of publicly shewing myself, Sir, Your obliged and obedient, humble Servant, ORRERY. * Relating to the Irish Piracy. COR I SHOULD have thought a compliance with my request *, without any marks to distinguish it from those that are usual on such occasions, a very great obligation upon me; but a compliance so big with generosity as your's, in terms that express To stand god-father to his child. just just what I was wishing, but, really, was far from having the presumption or vanity to expect, shews not a a bare esteem, but the affection of a sincere friend; and this accompanied with such a respect for one, indeed, of the best of wives and mothers; and with such tenderness for the dear littlestranger you so kindly consider asready as your own. So unexpectedly engaging a compliance as this, affected me on my first perusing your most obliging letter; and every time I think of it, still affects me in a manner I can no other way give you the idea of, than by referring you to what you must have felt yourself, if at any time, with such warm wishes for an interest in the friendship of a person you most highly valued, you have had your expectations so agreeably disappointed and exceeded, as by a goodness that admits of but few examples, mine have now been. I do not pretend, by thus referring you to your own sentiments of gratitude, that |