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Misic (Canton triliigas, v.5

FRASERIAN PAPERS

OF THE LATE

WILLIAM MAGINN, LL. D.

ANNOTATED, WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, D. C. L.

EDITOR OF "NOCTES AMBROSIANÆ,"-"SHEIL'S SKETCHES OF THE IRISH
'LADY MORGAN'S HISTORICAL ROMANCES," ETC.

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REDFIELD

34 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK
1857

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857,

By J. S. REDFIELD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.

SAVAGE & MOCREA, STEREOTYPERS,

13 Chambers Street, N. Y.

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EDWARD KENEALY, Esq.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW, GRAY'S INN, LONDON.

MY DEAR SIR :

To you, whose companionship was the solace of his closing years; whose tenderness smoothed his pillow in the last sad hours of fleeting life; whose friendship finally devoted itself to record his career as a man of letters, this collection of the Miscellaneous Writings of the late Dr. MAGINN owes much more than can be silently passed over. Without your kind assistance, I should have been unable, in several instances, to affiliate many of the articles, so pertinaciously did our brilliant countryman maintain the anonymous, and so Protean were his changes of style and subject. Nor could I have written the Life of Dr. MAGINN, which occupies a large space in this volume, without considerable indebtedness to the satisfactory biography contributed by you, in 1844, to the Dublin University Magazine.

In acknowledgment, then, of personal favors to myself, and also on account of the zealous regard you have so steadily and warmly manifested, in private and public, for the genius and the reputation of WILLIAM MAGINN, I take leave to dedicate these volumes of his Writings to you.

While thus thanking you for much information respecting Dr. MAGINN, conveyed not only in the Magazine, but in your private communications, let me avail myself of this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to others.

Place aux Dames! I regret that two townswomen of the Doctor's (one of whom knew him from his college-days, the other having remembered him ever since her own childhood), while they gave me many interesting personal details, shrink from the publicity of seeing their names in print.

I have to proffer my thanks to them, and would also express my gratitude, for information respecting Dr. MAGINN and his writings, to my friend Richard Martin, of the Middle Temple, London; to my brother, J. Campbell Mackenzie, of Galignani's Messenger, Paris; and also to Mr. Henry Plunkett, and Mr. Robert Walter Jones (Professor of music), both now of New York city. I might extend the list and must not omit Mr. Evert A. Duyckinck, for the use of books from his own fine collection; and Mr. John McMullen, of the New York Society Library, whose courtesy has often enabled me to refer, while editing these volumes, to the noble army of books of which he is the intelligent commissary. The greater part of my leisure, during the last two years, has been devoted to the editing of the series, of which the present is the fifth and concluding volume. The success which its predecessors have met with assures me that, in this vast nation of readers, writers, and thinkers, such a man as WILLIAM MAGINN is fully appreciated in his works.

Ever yours faithfully,

NEW YORK, March 2, 1857.

R. SHELTON MACKENZIE.

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