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Gentleman's Magazine 1814 part 1 p.516
[at]tention, you are welcome to publish any of them. - The
first book consists of Letters, and Poems introduced
therein, from Dr. Burnet to the Marchioness of Wharton,
which give light on those characters not publicly known. The
rest of the collection in this book are chiefly political;
wrote to Lord Wharton in the year 1706, and so to 1711, from
the Earl of Marchmont, W. Fleming, Lord Sunderland, General
Palmes, Lieut.-gen. Rosse, with an account of the Campaign
in 1708, and the returns of prisoners, &c. Lieut.colonel
Gledhill, Lord Galway, Duke of Shrewsbury, Duke of Richmond,
Young, Addison, De Foe, and several others. If you think it
would be worth the trouble, I will take the signatures from
off the original Letters, for you to cut into wood, to
authenticate the publication. The volume of Poems consists
of many Dr. Burnet's to the Marchioness of Wharton; and some
that have been published, but here much corrected.' These
curious papers, with the greater part of Mr. Hutchinson's
correspondence during a long and active life, remain in the
hands of his son; and part of them may probably be given to
the publick. - A very fine Portrait of Mr. Hutchinson, on
the same Plate with that of his benevolent friend the late
George Allan, esq. of the Grange, F.S.A. forms the
frontispiece to the Eighth Volume of 'Literary Anecdotes of
the Eighteenth Century.'
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