ADDRESS. xvii 
rendering legible, and perusing these valuable MSS. This 
was the toil of three months of the last Spring, When itis 
recollected that they were chiefly written on small pieces of 
paper, backs of letters, covers of pamphlets, proof-sheets, his 
son’s college exercises and copy-books, and even small pieces 
of pasteboard, snatched up at the moment a fact occurred 
worth recording, were smoaked, torn and dirty—this work will 
not appear an inconsiderable one. It required perseverance 
and toil—much of the MSS. was washed free of dirt in water, 
_ trimmed, pasted and pressed, and finally arranged by the pag- 
ing of the authors own hand and by his different directions to 
the: rin Within a month or two past they hag, been. com- 
a single materia ee 
condition han they ever were z rand shall be happy to mem 
By sbiaprinters calculations, who had countedshe cant ineach 
Jecture, i labour =~? necessary in MSS. ate on ern 
