R. Lettre de Benj. Victor à Young. [Extraite de Original Letters, etc., by B. Victor. London, T. Becket, 1776, 3 vol. in-8°. Vol. I, p. 75.] To the Rev. Dr Young at Tunbridge Wells. Dear Sir, (sans date). Since I left you I have read a poem with a tremendous title, called The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Death and Eternity. A melancholly unfashionable subject but the reading it gave me great pleasure; I found the thoughts quite new and Doctor Young written in large characters in every page. I found from your bookseller, Mr Dodsley, that you have carefully concealed your name, on purpose to try the force of your poem ; but you are too good a writer to be able to conceal yourself from your admirers. I hear we are to have the happiness of reading two books more. If I was your bookseller I should greatly solicit you to add your name, because it would call the attention of those readers who are led by mode, consequently encrease the sale of the poem. I hope to have the opportunity very soon of thanking you for this pleasure in London. I am, dear Sir, Your most oblig'd servant. S. [South Kensington Museum. Dyce Collection.] Lettre imprimée en tête de la première édition du poème Resignation destinée aux amis de l'auteur. Madam, Not to deceive you by the Title, I must let you know that tho' Resignation is my chief point, yet I touch on other Topics; Topics most tending to promote our Attainment of that supreme Virtue, such as the Vanity of this Life and the Value of the Next; Patience; Prayer ; Death; the great Goodness of the Deity, etc. The greatest part of what, in the following Pages, I have written to you, I have written also to myself: They stand in most Need of Resignation that are nearest to their End. God assist us both in the full use of that Reason which He has bestowed on us; and then we are sure of his farther favour; through the Intercession of the Best of Friends; Who brought us such very glad tidings as may well make the most heavy News this World can bring to sit light on our hearts. What I send you is ill adapted to the present Taste, and I am sorry to lay you under the Dilemma of being either Singular, or Dissatisfied with it. Madam Your most Obedient and most Humble Servant. BIBLIOGRAPHIE LISTE DES OUVRAGES CITÉS OU MENTIONNÉS SOURCES MANUSCRITES Les Archives d'All Souls' College à Oxford Papers concerning the Building of the College; Acta in Capitulis; the College Leave-Book. Die Berner Stadtbibliothek, Mss. Hist. Helv., XII et XVIII. La Bibliothèque Bodléienne d'Oxford: Ballard Mss., vol. VII; Hearne's Diaries; Rawlinson Mss., Letters et Rawl. poet., 229; Tanner Mss., vol. XXX et XXXVII. British Museum Mss. : Letters to Dr Birch; Egerton Mss., Letters from T. 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