Circular. Reverend Sir, it is greatly to be lamented, that, notwithstanding the means of instruction is brought, as it were, to the very doors of the lower orders of society in Scotland, by the useful institution and wide diffusion of parochial schools, so many of the rising generation, instead of following up the unspeakable advantage of being early taught to read, seem rather to vegetate in a state of ignorance, and acquire, as they grow up, habits of indolence, wickedness, and profligacy.
George Miller & Son.
Haddington (Scotland) : East Lothian Printing Office, Geo. Miller & Son,
1812.
A circular advertising the prospective publication of the serial "The cheap magazine; or poor man's fireside companion".
Signed: Your most obediant and humble servants, Geo. Miller & Son. East Lothian Printing Office. Haddington, July 27th, 1812.
Scotland Haddington.