MajicJicstcr Memoirs, Vol. xliv. (1900), No. 14. 



XIV. — Selections from the Correspondence of 

 Lieutenant-Colonel John Leigh Philips, of 

 Mayfield, Manchester. Part IL 



By W. Barnard Faraday, LL.B., 



Barrister-at- La7v . 



Received and read April 24th, iQoo. 



Just ten years ago the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society published the first series of these 

 " Selections," edited by Mr. F. J. Faraday. This first part 

 presented, on the whole, a complete outline of the life of 

 Mr. John Leigh Philips, and, to a certain extent, brought the 

 Manchester of loo years ago home to us, and enabled us 

 to judge for ourselves of the Manchester celebrities of that 

 day, and of the class of men who founded this Society. 

 The series of letters which it is now proposed to make 

 public deals to a very large extent with the sister town of 

 Liverpool, and enables us to gauge the literary, artistic 

 and social capacities of the two towns during the last 

 quarter of the eighteenth century. 



The greater number of the letters mentioned in the 

 following pages are from the pen of Mr. Thomas Taylor, 

 the intimate companion of Leigh Philips. The friendship 

 between these two was a very remarkable one in many 

 respects. Each was, or became in later life, a leading 

 citizen of his native town, each was happily placed in life, 

 each was blessed with cultivated tastes and a very earnest 



August i6t/i, I goo. 



