Title Page
FAMILIAR LETTERS,
addressed to
CHILDREN and YOUNG PERSONS
of the
MIDDLE RANKS.
The knowledge of external nature, and of the sciences which that knowledge requires, or includes, is not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action, or conversation; whether we wish to be useful or pleasing; the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong.
Johnson.
London:
Printed for the Author,
and sold by
Darton Harvey, and Darton, Gracechurch-Street;
J. Hatchard, Piccadilly:
and by T. Combe, Leicester.
1811.
Text: Familiar Letters, addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Darton, Harvey, and Darton, Gracechurch-street; J. Hatchard, Piccadilly; and by T. Combe, Leicester. 1811. British Library, shelfmark 1387.g.26. No authorial attribution appears on the title page, but the British Library incorrectly cites the volume in the catalogue as “E. Coltman, afterwards Heyrick," thus attributing the work to Coltman's Leicester friend and abolitionist, Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831). This work is relatively unknown, there being few copies extant.