Volume 1

Collective works ... : to which have been prefixed some biographic particulars / by W. Taylor of Norwich.

  • Sayers, F. (Frank), 1763-1817
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Collective works ... : to which have been prefixed some biographic particulars / by W. Taylor of Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * * 11 was willing to undertake, that no letters in my possession should appear in print; but he ob¬ served, that whatever remained extant, however safe while in the custody of friendship, was liable hereafter to be violated by the executors of another generation. Accordingly I sorted over my hoard of correspondence, and carried to him, in successive lots, all his own letters. The series began in 1775, and extended until 1790, since which year we have both been habi¬ tually resident in Norwich, and were seldom separated long enough to feel much the want of epistolary intercourse. Dr. Sayers died on the 6th August, 1817, having bequeathed to me all his papers. Not even a se¬ lection from his own Letters has been found among them; and it is now only from vague recollection that I can give any account of his earlier intel¬ lectual pursuits. The manuscripts, however, in¬ clude some unpublished poetry and prose care¬ fully transcribed, as if for the press; and some notices plainly intended to facilitate a correctly dated biography; such as the register of his baptism, particulars of his family, tickets of his