[552] Newton had suggested the propriety of Cowper trying the effect of animal magnetism, in the hopes of mitigating his disorder, but he declined the offer.
[553] The Rev. J. Johnson's sister.
[554] What are they which stand at a distance from each other, and meet without ever moving?
[555] Private correspondence.
[556] Private correspondence.
[557] Mrs. King presented the poet with a counterpane, in patch-work, of her own making. In acknowledgement, he addressed to her the verses beginning,
"The bard, if e'er he feel at all,
Must sure be quicken'd by a call," &c. &c.
[558] Private correspondence.
[559] The wife of the Rev. Thomas Scott, the author of one of the best Commentaries on the Bible ever published. Mr. Scott was preacher at the Lock Hospital at this time.
[560] Private correspondence.