To
The Honorable JOHN ADAM, Esq.
&c. &c. &c.
The conception of this Work, and my resolution to inscribe it to you, were almost co-instantaneous. This Community, intimately acquainted with your character, would, I doubted not, at once recognize the propriety of conspicuously associating your name with a Commemoration of virtuous and beneficent undertakings; but my more immediate impulse was publicly to testify, how deeply I feel the value of the friendship in which we have been so long united, and which, as it has eminently contributed to the happiness of my life, confers also upon me a distinction which it is my pride to acknowledge.
Your’s most faithfully,
C. LUSHINGTON.
Calcutta, the 10th of December, 1824.
