Excerpt from Poems and Plays, Vol. 6 of 6

The following Tragedy may perhaps attract the notice of the curious reader, more by a literary anecdote relating to its subject, than by any intrinsic merit as a dramatic composition.

The story was recommended to Young by the Author of Clarissa. - The poet adopted it, and wrote a single, but this shared the fate of his other unfinished manuscripts, and, according to the direction of his will, was committed to the flames.

These particulars, with a concise sketch of the story as related by Richardson, were communicated to Mr. Thornton by the poet's very liberal and amiable Son, the neighbour and the much-esteemed relation of my dear departed friend, who wished me to build a tragedy upon this foundation.

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