title: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library)
author: Tobias Smollett
description: This book offers a fascinating picture of eighteenth-century society. Tough, splenetic, and widely experienced, of all the great novelists of his time Tobias Smollett is the one who registered best the bawdy, brutal side of the eighteenth-century life. Towards the end of his life, however, he grew mellower, and "Humphrey Clinker" (1771) is a tale of high good humour. Squire Bramble's picaresque tour of the Britain of George III has enough eccentric characters and comic adventures for several lifetimes, and a wealth of local colour.
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  # The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  
  
  ### Tobias Smollett
  
  
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  To Mr HENRY DAVIS, Bookseller, in London.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ABERGAVENNY, Aug. 4.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  RESPECTED SIR,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I have received your esteemed favour of the 13th ultimo, whereby
  
  
  it appeareth, that you have perused those same Letters, the which
  
  
  were delivered unto you by my friend, the reverend Mr Hugo Behn;
  
  
  and I am pleased to find you think they may be printed with a
  
  
  good prospect of success; in as much as the objections you
  
  
  mention, I humbly conceive, are such as may be redargued, if not
  
  
  entirely removed — And, first, in the first place, as touching
  
  
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