[73] The loss of his excellent wife. Mr. Barham was the intimate friend of Newton, and Cowper, and of the pious Lord Dartmouth, whose name is occasionally introduced in these letters in connexion with Olney, where his lordship's charity was liberally dispensed. Mr. Barham suggested the subject of many of the hymns that are inserted in the Olney collection, and particularly the one entitled "What think ye of Christ?" He was father of the late Jos. Foster Barham, Esq., many years M.P. for the borough of Stockbridge. The editor is happy in here bearing testimony to the profound piety and endearing virtues of a man, with whose family he became subsequently connected. He afterwards married the widow of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., and lived at Hawkestone, in Shropshire.
[74] The late Rev. Thomas Scott, so well known and distinguished by his writings.
[75] Private correspondence.
[76] This alludes to his attendance on a condemned malefactor in the jail at Chelmsford.
[77] Private correspondence.
[78] This season was remarkable for the most destructive hurricanes ever remembered in the West Indies.
[79] He alludes to the humorous verses on the Nose and the Eyes, inserted in a preceding letter.
[80] Private correspondence.
[81] Private Correspondence.
[82] Private correspondence.