DEAR L----,

Your letter to me, within the first two months from the commencement

of the present work, approving my notice of St. Chad’s Well, and your

afterwards daring to publish me your “friend,” with your “proper name”

annexed, I shall never forget. Nor can I forget your and Miss Lamb’s

sympathy and kindness when glooms outmastered me; and that your pen

spontaneously sparkled in the book, when my mind was in clouds and

darkness. These “trifles,” as each of you would call them, are

benefits scored upon my heart; and

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