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Preface.
Mr Clowes’s original letters to Mr Tulk, Mr Harrison, and others. Though I never had the advantage of seeing Mr Clowes, his writings have been, under Divine Providence, the principal means of my own happiness, and I esteem it a high privilege indeed to be enabled to take a humble part in bringing their pious and enlightened author before a younger generation.
The original matter collected by Mr Harrison forms but a small part of the present volume. His personal recollections are now placed in a separate chapter, and I have endeavored to improve the arrangement of the whole materials, including some corrections, and a good deal of new matter elicited by the former edition.
Theodore Compton.
Winscombe, March, 1882.
