From William Cowper's Letters: A Selection, edited by E. V. LucasTHE FISH
"My dear William -- The fish happening to swim uppermost in my mind, I give it the precedence, and begin with returning our thanks for it, not forgetting the circumstances of free carriage. Upon the whole, I think this a handsomer way of acknowledging as present than to tuck it into a postscript..."
From a letter to The Rev. William Unwin, (undated)
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