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WILLIS'S
CURRENT NOTES:
A SERIES OF ARTICLES
ON
Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language,
Literature, Topography, Curious Customs, &c.
SELECTED FROM
ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS
ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR
1852,
TO THE PUBLISHER,
G. WILLIS,
GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. MDCCCLIII.
PREFACE.
ENTERING as we now are upon the publication of a third volume of the "Current Notes," the Second Volume of which we have herewith the pleasure of presenting in a complete form to the Public, our first duty as it is our pleasure is to thank our Subscribers most cordially for the very liberal support we have received from them during its progress. It is so seldom that the productions of the Customer and the Tradesman form part of the same Periodical, that it is no wonder if the Publisher of the "Current Notes" feels a little elated by seeing his humble efforts for the entertainment of the Public in such good company. But this patronage, so far from dulling his exertions in his legitimate pursuit—that of promoting the diffusion of Books in their widest extent—will only stimulate him to fresh efforts, and while he continues to place before his Customers the best Books, he trusts that they will be as liberal as hitherto in their contributions of Current Notes.