APPENDIX. 367 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



[In the " Memoir " of 1862, Miss Bewick 

 printed five letters from the Bewick MSS. To 

 these in the present edition have been added 

 twelve others, all selected because they are, more 

 or less, characteristic of the writers, or serve in 

 some way to illustrate the pages to which they 

 form an appendix. Had space permitted, their 

 number might easily have been increased. Those 

 which appeared in the "Memoir" of 1862 are dis- 

 tinguished by an asterisk. Three of these, which 

 had been considerably edited upon their first 

 publication, are here printed, like all the new 

 ones, direct from the original MSS.] 



THOMAS BEWICK TO FENWICK BEWICK. 



NEWCASTLE 6 January 1786 

 FRIEND FENWICK, 



I have herewith sent a Tobacco Box, 

 which, please to accept of from me, for your New 

 Year's Gift : I cou'd think of nothing else so pro- 

 per to present you with, as a small Token of the 

 grateful sense I entertain of your Civility, and also 

 as a small Recompence for the Trouble you have 

 taken to oblige me. If care is taken of this 

 Present it may perhaps be a Tobacco Box in 

 the Hands of your Childrens Children, a Century 

 hence and when nobody then living will know 

 any thing of either the Giver or the Receiver of 

 it. 



