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The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth Draper

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The contents list letters from Yorick to Eliza, a journal, original letters of Laurence Sterne, letters of Elizabeth Draper, and a eulogy by the Abbé Raynal. The title page describes the journal and various letters as taken from the Gibbs manuscripts and other sources, mostly published for the first time. A writer addressing Eliza describes retirement as the mind’s only comfort and a place where the writer can think of her.

The writer says that much company and dissipation deprive the mind of its only comfort. A discussion of children credits children in general with remarkable powers of observation and memory.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman whose experimental, comic Tristram Shandy broke every rule of storytelling and influenced writers for centuries.