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Thomas Edwards : [letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela']

'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life, I should have made a much more perfect Piece of my first Favourite.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson      Manuscript: Letter

Thomas Edwards : Canons of Criticism

[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antagonist, which I had read before I left London, but forgot to return you [sic]. They made me laugh: a great merit to us splenetic folks!'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan      Print: Book

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