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“”this work, Literature has lost a learned and conscientious labourer, and Birmingham a true friend, by the lamented death of Mr. Toulmin Smith. I have, also, to thank Mr. Sebastian Evans, M.A., Mr. Brooke Smith, Mr. W. R. Hughes, Mr. Hubert Latham, Mr. John Rabone, jun., and Mr. Frederick Price, for much valuable assistance.
To the members of my own household, who have so industriously and unweariedly helped me in the tedious and irksome labour of transcription, my thanks are also due.
Birmingham, November, 1867.
