[Footnote 58: Letter to the Rev. John Newton, dated Olney, November
30, 1783.]
[Footnote 59: Letter to the Rev. William Unwin, dated "October 31,
1779."]
[Footnote 60: Letter to the Rev. William Unwin, dated "Olney, May 1,
1781."]
[Footnote 61: His first volume of verse.]
[Footnote 62: This paragraph is from another letter to Unwin, written
three weeks later--May 23, 1781.]
[Footnote 63: This letter, addrest to Unwin, and dated "October 30,
1784," refers to Cowper's poem "The Task."]