Dedication
Reading edition
TO JOHN R. ROBINSON, ESQ.
Dear Robinson,
In dedicating to you this edition of a Work, the contents of which originally appeared under your editorial sanction, I avail myself of one of the few pleasures of authorship. Of the defects of this little Volume none can be more sensible than myself: you will, however, receive it as a trifling acknowledgment on my part of the generous friendship you have ever exhibited for an occasional colleague and
Yours faithfully, J. EWING RITCHIE.
Finchley Common, Nov. 7, 1857.