THE

LETTERS

OF A

SOLITARY WANDERER:

CONTAINING

NARRATIVES

OF

VARIOUS DESCRIPTION.

By CHARLOTTE SMITH.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

Printed for T. N, LONGMAN and o. axrs, Paternoster-row.

PREFACE

TO THE FOURTH AND FIFTH VOLUMES OF

"The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer.""

THE work, of which the fourth and fifth volumes are now published, was fold to Mr. Sampson Low more than three years fince and the first three books were published in October, 1800. A few months afterwards, Mr. Low died; and his executors thought it advifeable to fell fuch part of his effects as confifted of copy-right, by auction. Among the property thus difpofed of was the remainder of the impreffion of three volumes of the "Letters of a Sa

litary Wanderer," and his purchase of two manuscript volumes, for which I had been paid.

It happened, that of

1441 (52) szyme