The love-letters of Mr. H. & Miss R., 1775-1779

Croft, Herbert, Sir · 1816

The strange and pathetic story that is told in the love letters that passed between Mr. Hackman and Miss Reay, excited widespread attention and sympathy during the spring of the year 1779, and interest in the affair was revived in the following year by the publication of an anonymous book in which some of these letters, in a garbled form, were inserted. The originals, or copies of the originals—for Hackman was sufficiently romantic to have kept copies of his own letters—were given to Kearsly, the publisher, by Mr. Frederick Booth, Hackman’s brother-in-law, in consequence of Kearsly having issued a pamphlet, on the 24th of April, 1779, called “The Case and Memoirs of the late Revd. Mr. James…

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