Excerpt from Journals and Correspondence of Thomas Sedgewick Whalley, D. D., Of Mendip Lodge, Somerset, Vol. 2 of 2: Edited, With a Memoir and Illustrative Notes My bookseller informed me, soon after the delivery of the books according to your direction, that the Milk-woman's Poems were not to be had at that period, being out of print. My opinion is in general yours upon that brilliant mischief, the Essay on Old Maids, at least in point of morality and generosity, both which I think it lamentably violates; but in ability I set it higher than you seem to do - indeed I think it has the wit and spirit of Voltaire's most brilliant compositions; and I find the pathos of Sterne in several of the beautiful little stories of the first volume. I shed rivers of tears over the history of poor Constantia, and her lacerated feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.