Excerpt from Familiar Letters and Poems, Principally on Friendship and Religion These Letters and Poems, written by Miss Lucy Barns, who died (august, aged 29 years and 5 months, were collected and published after her death. There were copies, which sold readily and were received with warm approbation by the then Universalist community. Many have acknowledged that reading the writings of Lucy Barns were the means of their conviction of the truth of Universalism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.