2oO HENKY KIRKE WHITE'S REMAINS. 



in silver. If they hurt him through stiffness, I think 

 the better way will be to Avear them with the two end 

 joints shut to, and with a piece of ribbon to go round 

 the back of the head, &c. The Roraaine's Sermons, and 

 the cheap tracts, are books which I thought might be 

 useful. You may think I am not yet privileged to make 

 presents, since they will in the end come out of your 

 pocket ; but I am not in want of cash at present, and 

 have reason to believe, from my own calculations, I shall 

 not have occasion to call upon you for what I know jou 

 can so ill spare. I was qi/ite vexed afterwards that I 

 did not send you all the volumes of the Cheap Reposi- 

 tory, as the others, which are the general tracts, and 

 such as are more entertaining, would have been well 

 adapted to your library. When I next go to HuU, I 

 purpose buj'ing the remaining volumes ; and when ] 

 next have occasion to send a parcel, you will receive 

 them. The volume you have now got contains all the 

 Sunday reading tracts, and on that account I sent it 

 separately. As I have many things to remind me of 

 my sister Smith, I thought (though we neither of us need 

 such mementos) that she would not be averse to receive 

 the Sermons of the great and good, though in some re- 

 spects singular, Romaine, at my hands, as what old- 

 fashioned people would call a token of a brother s love 

 but v/hat in more courtly phrase is denominated a mer 

 mento of aj-'ection. 



TO MR SERGEANT ROUGH. 



AYinteringham, 17th Feb. 1805. 

 My dear Sir, 



I blush when I look back to the date of your too long 

 unanswered letter, and were I not satisfied that the con- 

 tents of my sheet of post must always be too unimportant 

 to need apology, I should now make one. 



The fine and spirited song (song in the noblest sense 

 of the word) which you sent me, on the projected inva- 



