BR.DARWItf 



In September 1780, a playful corre- 

 fpondence pafled between Dr. Darwin and 

 Mifs Seward, in the name of their refpeo 

 tive cats. The fubjecl: was ludicrous as it 

 was fingular, but the mock-heroic refult 

 pleafed very generally, as the permiffion 

 of taking copies had been folicitcd and 

 obtained by feveral of their acquaintance. 

 Some literary friends of the writer of 

 thefe pages, remembering the bagatelles 

 with pleafure, perfuaded her to infert 

 them. She is apprehenfive that they may 

 be confidered as below the dignity which 

 a biographic Iketch of deceafed Eminence 

 ought perhaps to preferve ; yet, as in this 

 whimfically gay effufion, Dr. Darwin ap- 

 pears in a new light of comic wit and 

 fportive ingenuity, ihe ventures to comply 

 with their requeft. 



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