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APPENDIX. No. III. 
Page xxix. 
Soon after Mr. Edwards's death several letters passed between Park and Sir 
William Young, now Governor of Tobago, upon a subject immediately con- 
nected with the question, considered in the memoir, relative to the assistance 
afforded by Mr. Edwards in preparing Park's travels for the press. Copies of 
these letters having been transmitted to the editor by Park's family, he thinks 
it right on the present occasion to lay them before the public ; remarking 
at the same time that, after due consideration of their contents, he continues 
to be of the opinion which he has expressed in the text. 
The occasion of this correspondence appears to have been as follows. Mr. 
Edwards was engaged, at the time of his death, in preparing for the press an 
enlarged and corrected edition of his History of the West Indies; but as he 
did not live to complete it, his friend Sir William Young superintended the 
publication of the work, and added a short preface; in which, speaking of 
Mr. Edwards's literary merits, he mentioned " the judicious compilation and 
" elegant recital of the travels of Mungo Park". This produced a letter of 
expostulation from Park to Sir William Young, of which either no copy was 
kept, or it has been since lost or mislaid ; but the nature of its contents will 
be seen from the sequel of the correspondence. 
Sir William Young to Mr. Park. 
" 59 Harhy-street, 'November Qth, 1803. 
" The day before yesterday I received your letter dated so far back as 
August 25lh. Ft appears to have been put into the London post, addressed to 
my clerk's lodgings, only last week, and reached me in the country November 
the 7th. I am thus particular as to dates, as I could not bear the imputation 
of having so long neglected the due acknowledgment of a letter from one 
