A Stranger in Distress.- Wilkinson (Thomas, lawyer and schoolmaster) A Paraphrase on Hor: Lib: 3. Ode 16, ?autograph manuscript, title, introduction and 4pp., foxed, browned and creased, title and last f. margins repaired with tape, unbound, sm. 4to, [c. 1750].
⁂ A rare survival and possibly a unique work. The author in his introduction to the Rev. Mr Attwood gives a brief autobiography of his misfortunes. "Bred to the law" and practising as an attorney in London, Wilkinson was sued on behalf of a near relation and had to retire to Cornwall and work as a teacher, leaving his wife in London. In search of another more lucrative job and rejoined by his wife, Wilkinson returned to London and addressed this variation based on Horace to Attwood in the hope of some charity, naming himself as "A Stranger in Distress".
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