"I had a brother once,
Peace to the memory of a man of worth," &c. &c.
[625] Private correspondence.
[626] Mrs. Martha More had requested Cowper to furnish a contribution to her collection of autographs. The result appears in the sequel of this letter.
[627] In the present edition of the Poems the lines stand thus, on a farther suggestion of Lady Hesketh's:—
In vain to live from age to age,
While modern bards endeavour,
I write my name in Patty's page,
And gain my point for ever.
W Cowper.
March 6, 1792.
[628] This alludes to the new colony for liberated Africans, at Sierra Leone; in the origin of which Mr. Henry Thornton and Mr. Zachary Macauley were mainly instrumental. For interesting accounts of this colony, see the "Missionary Register of the Church Missionary Society," passim.
[629] Private correspondence.
[630] Afterwards Sir George Throckmorton.
[631] Private correspondence.