Reasons for Rejecting the Presumptive Evidence of Mr. Almon, That "Mr. Hugh Boyd Was the Writer of Junius": With Passages Selected to Prove the Real Author of the Letters of Junius (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The perusal of the above testimony occasioned a comparison of the Letters of J unius with those of General Lee, which were published in his Me moirs, by jordan, IN fleet street, m the year 1792 And, as the dates of the letters to and from General Lee, convict Mr. Almon of many inaccuracies, it became the amusement of a few idle hours to examine the presumptive evidence of Mr. Almon in favour of Mr. Boyd being the writer of J unius, and to note down some passages from General Lee's Memoirs, and such observa tions as, it is presumed, would have occurred to any reader, who would take the trouble of com paring the style and sentiments of. General Lee's writings with those of J unius.

Mr. Almon, in his Preface to his Edition of Junius, observes.

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