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Harrison ' s miscellanies * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , For the satisfaction of your correspondent , who inquires after the book of Miscellanies , containing some of Mr . Grilse ' s pieces , ( voL if . p . 86 . ) I beg of you to give him the following information . It is intitled " . Miscellanies [ in Prose and Verse ]
on Moral and Religious Subjects . By Elizabeth Harrison . " It is an octavo volume , which was primed by subscription in the year 1756 . The list of subscribers is very respectable , and contains the names of a < rreat number of the most eminent
dissenting ministers . The work was published with the benevolent design of procuring some pecuniary assistance for the lady whose name is prefixed , who had , by some misfortune , been reduced to difficulties . If I mistake not , she kept a boarding school for young ladies at St . Alban ' s , where Mr Grigg resided , who was ready to ev £ ry good work , and who communicated a
number of little pieces , principally in verse , in order to make up the volume . Some of them are of the humorous kind , but others grave and devout , among which are several hymns . All his pieces have this signature at the end * * * . This book has long been out of print , and is become very scarce . The only copy of it which I ever saw was my own , ( which a
few years ago I lent and lost , ) till very lately I met with another , very accidentally , in the shop-window of a dealer in old books . If your correspondent will make himself known to you , and give proper security for the return of this volume , he
shall be welcome to the perusal of it . A small collection of Mr Grigg ' s hymns has lately been published . Had the editor known of this work he might have made a valuable addition to the collection . I embrace this
opportunity of informing the Inquirer , and your other readers , that Mr Grigg . with whom I was intimately acquainted , had a considerable number of hymns and other poetical pieces in MS . which ,, he told me , the last time I saw him , he intended to publish ; and 1 well remember that heAvas then actually transcribing them for this purpose . But he died soon afterwards . Where his papers now are I know not , but most probably they fell into the hands of his nephew , the late eccentric Mr . law - cett .
I am , Sir , Hespectfully yours ,
March 1 % 1801 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/23/
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