FAC-SIMILES OF THE HANDWRITING OF JUNIUS. To Mr. David garrick дам very exactly informed of your impectinest inquiries. t of the information you so basily seat to Richaves & with what trinath texaltation it was received. I knew rvery particular of it the next day. Now mark me, vagabond-heep to your faatomimis, or be assureds no of it. Meddle informer! It is It is in more, you shall hear thow busy in my power to make which you dared you curse the hours, in I doubt much whether I shall rver have the pleasure of knowing You; but if things take the tara drapeet. You shall know me by my boks. INCLUDING LETTERS BY THE SAME WRITER TO WHICH ARE ADDED HIS CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR. WILKES, A few and Enlarged Edition. WITH NEW EVIDENCE AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP, AND AN ANALYSIS BY THE LATE SIR HARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. CONTAINING THE ENTIRE WORK AS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED, LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT garden. 1850. HARVARD COLLEGE Oct 10. 1933 Mrs. Daniel Stanford Br 2060.262.5 (1), HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NOV 3 0 1997 ADVERTISEMENT. NEARLY three generations have elapsed since the "Letters of Junius" were first published; and it may be safely affirmed that, during this long ordeal, no contemporary work has maintained a higher estimation-has received more marked and uniform approval from competent literary judges-or has called into existence so many commentators, editors, and investigators. As there is little in the subject matter of these famous epistles that could confer upon them such enduring celebrity. they must be mainly indebted for it to the writer's extraordinary powers, the varied resources of which have enabled him, with the peculiar characteristic of genius, to dignity and immortalize that which, in its own nature, is secondary and perishable. In this respect Junius stands alone-he is the Napoleon of public writers; and, like the author of the first and noblest epic, though he has had a host of imitators, he is still without an equal. The STANDARD LIBRARY would have been imperfect had it not included among its elect the most celebrated of political gladiators. The very complete edition now submitted to the public comprises all that was given in the three volumes published in 1812, and again in 1814, by the late Mr. George Woodfall-indeed all that was authentically known of Juuius and his writings. To specify more distinctly the merits of Woodfall's edition, now reprinted entire, it may be proper to enumerate its contents, which are:-1. The public letters of Junius as revised and annotated by himself, and published collectively, under his direction, subsequent to their appearance in the Public Advertiser. 2. A collection of Miscellaneous Letters, ascribed to Junius. 3. His private notes and confidential communications with Mr. Woodfall (published only after they had been. |