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whom I so highly esteem and respect. In regard to the question you state, I 
understood from the late Mr. Edwards, that he assisted in the general arrange- 
ment of the materials you supplied, as Dr. Hawkesworth did, in the case of 
a voyage by the great navigator Captain Cooke; and that the previous 
Account or Summary of your Travels delivered into the African Association 
was written by him ; to which your fuller Account of your Travels in detail 
was subsequent. The word " author, " I believe, does not occur in the pas- 
sage you refer to ; and if the words " compilation and recital" seem to bear 
any application beyond the prospectus before adverted to, or in any way to 
trench on your just pretensions as a writer, I truly lament the inaccuracy, and 
will take the most immediate means of rectifying the error, which circum- 
stances may place within my reach; either by present correction or on a new 
edition of the work. My situation as Secretary of the African Association 
furnishes me with documents from which I have learned so highly to appre- 
ciate your character and to entertain so grateful a sense of your public ser- 
vices, that it would be painful in me, in the smallest degree to have stated any 
thing that might be so construed as to affect your just literary pretensions; 
although it is diflacult to add to the just and high reputation you held inde- 
pendently, from the fortitude, discretion, and resource so eminently shewn iu 
your distinguished and successful enterprise." 
Mr. Park to Sir William Young. 
" FowhUeh, Uth May, 1804. 
*' I perceive by your letter, that you meant the words ' compilation' and 
* recital,' to refer entirely to the Abridgment of my Travels, which was written 
for the perusal of the gentlemen of the African Association, by Mr. Edwards, 
their Secretary. 
A printed copy of this .Abridgment was delivered to each of the gentlemen 
at their annual meeting, but I believe it was never publicly sold. The greater 
number of readers are therefore but slightly acquainted with it; and to such, 
the words abovementioned will naturally convey a very different meaning. 
Having thus explained myself to you, I hope you will see the propriety of 
correcting the passage above-mentioned as soon as possible. I must therefore 
request you will permit me to insert your letter in any of the periodicar pub- 
lications, or favour me with a correction of the passage, as you may think 
proper." ■ ' 
