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THE AUTHORSHIP OF ADAM BEDE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES,

Sir,—If you receive any more letters about the authorship of Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede, will you be so kind as to publish this note?

Those works are not written by Mr. Liggins, or by any one with a name like Liggins, and if any person is receiving charitable contributions on the ground of being the author of the said works he is doing so under false pretences.

The author is known to us, and subjoined is a copy of a note we have received from him since the appearance of the letter of your correspondent “S. G. O.”

We have the honour to be, Your most obedient servants, WM. BLACKWOOD and SONS, 37, Paternoster-row, June 4. 1859