Engraved by Cromek from the original picture by Wright of Derby in the pofsefsion of Thomas White Laq Linfield cdburgh Published by Myst's Constable on 19 March 151 OF ANNA SEWARD : WRITTEN BETWEEN THE YEARS 1784 AND 1807. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOLUME I. EDINBURGH: Printed by George Ramsay & Company, FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH; LONDON. 1811. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ADVERTISEMENT. THE following letter, which was found among Miss SEWARD'S papers after her death, will account sufficiently for the present Publication, and renders it unnecessary for the Editor either to enter into any explanation of his motives for undertaking it, or to offer any apology for its appearance. Posthumous Letter from Anna Seward to Mr A. Constable. "SIR, July 17, 1807. "IN a Will, made and executed since "I had the pleasure of seeing you in 66 April last, I have left you the exclu "sive copy-right of Twelve Volumes 66 vi " quarto, half-bound. They contain co 66 66 pies of letters, or of parts of letters, "that, after I had written them, appear"ed to me worth the attention of the public. Voluminous as is the collec❝tion, it does not include a twelfth part "of my epistolary writing from the time "it commences, viz. from the year 1784, "to the present day. 66 "I wish you to publish two volumes annually; and by no means to follow "the late absurd custom of classing let"ters to separate correspondents, but "suffer them to succeed each other in "the order of time, as you find them "transcribed. "When you shall receive this letter "its Writer will be no more. While she "lives she must wish Mr CONSTABLE all "manner of good, and that he may en 66 joy it to a late period of human life. "ANNA SEWARD." It was in this manner that these letters came into the hands of the Editor; and, |