A historical tour through Pembrokeshire / By Richard Fenton.

  • Fenton, Mr. (Richard), 1746-1821.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A historical tour through Pembrokeshire / By Richard Fenton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have traced together the vestiges of antiquity; the • many hours of my existence which your conversation has informed and cheered; the thousand offices of sympathy and benevolence with which you have dissipated the gloom hanging heavily on my mind, and have alleviated that anguish which my own fortitude was insufficient to sustain, I must surrender myself to the temptation of proclaiming you, with- out any reference to the present volume, and without attending to the sensibilities and prohibition of your own delicate mind, as the friend of my fortunes and of my life. Resigning therefore to the public hand to give the plaudit due to you as a master of the pencil and the pen, let me indulge myself by regarding you so lely as the possessor of those virtues which to me have been such affluent sources of good; and conse- crating this page to the best feelings of the human heart, let me profess myself. My dear Sir, to be Your greatly obliged friend. And faithful, humble servant, Richard Fenton. Glynamcl, Fishguard, October 20, 1810.