vi PAGE 134 to 140 Voyage from the Thames to Falmouth, Nov. 141 Correspondence resumed [Feb. to June, 1667] 142 to 152 Further correspondence, from June 8, [1670,] to Oct. 3, 1682 153 to 201 202 to 350 MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE 351 to end. Mr. Samuel Duncon to Dr. Browne Mr. Henry Bates to Dr. Browne, Aug. 28, 358 Dr. Henry Power to Dr. Browne, Feb. 10, Mr. Thomas Smith to Dr. Browne 359 Dr. Henry Power to Dr. Browne, Sep. 15, 1649 Sir Hamon L'Estrange to Dr. Browne, Jan. Dr. Browne to [J. Hobart, Esq. ?] Aug.1654 371 Dr. Browne to J. Hobart, Esq. Aug. 31, 1666 372 in 1658 with Dugdale, 373 to 380 from Oct. 4, 1658, to Apl. 5, 1662 . 380 to 393 rett from July 13, 1668, to [June ?] 1669 393 to 408 Sir Robert Paston to Dr. Browne, Sep. 19, [1662,] Apl. 5, 1669 The Earl of Yarmouth to Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Browne to Elias Ashmole, Oct. Sir Thomas Browne to Mr. John Browne [1667-8] Sir Thomas Browne to Mr. Talbot Sir Thomas Browne to [Dean Astley?]. Dr. How to Dr. Browne, Sep. 20, 1655 . [Dr. Browne?] to Mr. Daniel King, [1656] Dr. Robinson to Dr. Browne, Dec. 12, 1659 M. Escaliot to Dr. Browne, Jan. 26, 1662 Another letter from the same, no date Dr. Merrett to Dr. Browne, Aug. 29, 1668, Dr. Browne to [. .?] concerning Cortex ... Peruvianus Additional correspondence of Dr. Edward Browne with his father, Aug. 8, 1669, to Dr. Browne to Mr. William Lilly, Feb. 8, Book I. The general part; the various causes of common errors PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA, books 4 to 7 Book IV. The particular part continued; of popular errors Book V. The same continued; of questionable or erroneous representations in pictures; of many popular customs, &c. Book VI. The same continued; of popular tenets, cosmogra- phical, geographical, and historical Book VII. The same concluded; of popular tenets, chiefly BRAMPTON URNS Editor's Preface to these three tracts 497 to 505 377 to 380 PREFACE. NEARLY twelve years have elapsed since the present edition was undertaken; and it affords me no small gratification to have at length accomplished, however imperfectly, a task which has been attended by a degree of labour proportioned to the difficulty of the work, and the competency of the workman. The delay, though not my own, and incurred in the hope of securing a corresponding advantage to my readers, cannot, I fear, be justified :—and, when I consider how often plans have been defeated, assurances forfeited, and character thus sacrificed, by a spirit of procrastination, I cannot but rejoice that my own intentions have survived that which threatened their frustration, and that I have been permitted, though late, to redeem my pledge by the publication of these volumes. Respecting the WORKS of Sir Thomas Browne, I need say the less here, because explanatory prefaces accompany the principal of them. Religio Medici, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, and the volume containing Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus, were published by himself; after his decease, and in consonance no doubt with his understood intentions, appeared the Miscellany Tracts, Letter to a Friend, Posthumous Works, and Christian Morals. The last of these, we are informed by his daughter, was "a continuation of his Religio Medici, drawn up in his elder years," and seems to have been left in readiness for the press. Of his lesser pieces he had probably intended to make a complete collection, and either publish, or leave them for publication in a revised form; for he has informed us himself that he had "some miscellaneous tracts which might be published."2 The collection which was brought out by Abp. Tenison does not appear to me to have been so complete or so revised and arranged, as the author would have left it. Generally speaking, I have arranged the works according to the date of their publication; deviating only occasionally in order to place similar subjects together. On this principle I have placed the Miscellany Tracts last, because the hitherto unpublished works which follow are also miscellaneous. It will be expected that I should say a few words respecting the LIFE and CORRESPONDENCE, which occupy the first volume. The only original and authentic biographical materials which exist re 1 See last page of Supplementary Memoir, and Archdeacon Jeffery's Preface to the Christian Morals. 2 Vol. i, p. 468. |