[47] John Woolman was a Quaker, who wrote Serious Considerations on Various Subjects of Importance, London, 1773, with other works. He did good service in his time in helping to awake the sleeping conscience of England to the iniquity of the slave trade and of slavery.—Ed.
[48] Alluding to the sentiments of the wise and venerable Lady Hutchinson.
[49] History of the Reign of James II., by the Right Honᵇˡᵉ C. J. Fox. London. 1808.—Ed.
[50] A mistake; these letters were by the late Edward Sterling, Esq.—Ed.
[51] See p. 103.
[52] Mr. Lefanu was for many years the editor of The Farmer’s Journal, and in various ways actively engaged in promoting the moral and material prosperity of Ireland.—Ed.
[53] The statement above is not perfectly accurate. Miss Seward bequeathed her Poems to Sir Walter Scott, who published them, with only a few of her earlier letters, in 1810. The twelve volumes of her Letters she left to Constable, and it was he who reduced these to six, which he published in 1811.—Ed.
[54] The two or three concluding words of this letter are lost.
[55] This same image reappears in a poem, too long to quote.
‘Yes, in the boundless hopes of dawning love