THE

CORRESPONDENCE

OF

SAMUEL RICHARDSON,

AUTHOR OF

PAMELA, CLARISSA, AND SIR CHARLES GRANDISON.

SELECTED FROM THE

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS,

BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO HIS FAMILY,

To which are prefixed,

A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT

OF THAT AUTHOR,

AND

OBSERVATIONS ON HIS WRITINGS.

BY ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, No. 71,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

1804.

LEWIS and RODEN, Printers, Paternoster-row.

ADVERTISEMENT.

WHEN a private correspondence is presented to the public, the first question which occurs is, how have they been procured?-In the present instance this admits of the most satisfactory answer. It was the custom of Mr. RICHARDSON, not only to preserve the letters of his numerous correspondents, but to take copies of his own, generally by the hands of his daughters, particularly his daughter Martha, and his nephew, who performed to him the office of amanu