Sep 8. 1760

Dear Sir

I have received ye Papers — and
how greatly am I concern'd, yt I can not take
ye advantage of ye infinite pains you have
taken for me? But every day puts it more &
more out of my powr (Cross and dagger inserted
by another hand.)

It is wth. difficulty yt I can read wt yr Friend,
& Genius, & Virtue, has sent me: But still
greater difficulty am I under sufficiently to
thank you for it. — To write is uneasy to me;
must I despair of ever seeing you? Or have I
yt pleasure in life still to come? — success,
& Peace, be ever with You!

Amen.

wh. is ye natural style of those yt have entred
the intermediate state between this scene, & ye
next: A dim Apartment it is, wh. excludes
Action, but favours Thought.

(At the left side):

Heaven be favourable to Miss Pattys health!

Young, Dr. Edward. Author of 'Night Thoughts'.

Autograph letter, 1 p., 8 September 1760. Addressed to the novelist Samuel Richardson.

An affectionate letter expressing gratitude and ad
miration of Richardson, but reflecting the melancholy
state of the poet's mind.

Portions of this letter were published by Mrs. Barbauld
in her edition of Richardson correspondence (London, 1804,
vol. ii, pp. 57-8) where she combined this letter with
parts of another, suppressing some portions of the
present ms. The marks at the end of the first para-
graph are undoubtedly her signals to the printer.