Excerpt from Indexes to the First Lines and to the Subjects of the Poems of Robert Herrick
First Lines was in proof and the whole of that labor was lost in the fire with, also, much of the manuscript of the Index of Subjects. The work had practically to be recommenced, and when it is remembered that the time that can be bestowed on such work as this is very limited, it is hoped that the delay which has been so unavoidably incurred will be excused.