Dear Sir, I am much obliged for all your kind observations upon the Christian Names, a work which I know it was very presumptuous in me to undertake, with so little real knowledge as I possess of more than general principles and a few scattered details.

I am glad you exonerate the original thief from being a robber. I went upon the authority of the late Professor Munch of Christiana, who gave me much kind help. I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Freeman , I waited to thank you for your kind note to see if there was any chance of so getting rid of the old edition of History of Christian Names, as to make it reasonable to put an abridgment much corrected in hand - But unluckily the book was printed in the anarchy of the J W Parker establishment and the edition was too large, so that I do not know how to ... continue reading