Letters of Harriet Countess Granville, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Letters of Harriet Countess Granville, Vol. 1 There is not much scandal, but where it occurs I have, except in notorious cases, suppressed the names. There has been considerable difficulty in putting these letters in anything like their proper order. Those addressed to the Duke of Devonshire have their dates docketed by him, and the dates of the other letters written in England are generally to be ascertained either from the post-marks or from their being franked. But there is no such help with regard to the numerous letters sent in the Ambassador´s bag. The dates which I have affixed to these are mere conjecture derived from incidents referred to. There are also frequent interruptions in the correspondence, which are due to the brother and sisters often residing in the same place. Still, I hope that a sufficiently continuous narrative has been preserved. Another difficulty has been the selection of the letters to be published, there being many which, for family and other reasons, are less suitable for publication. On the other hand, I have tried to carry out the views expressed by Archbishop Whately in a review he wrote of one of Miss Austen´s novels, and which are equally applicable to letters. He writes: ´Let anyone cut out from a work everything which is devoid of importance and interest in itself, and he will find that what is left will have lost more than half its charms. We are convinced that some writers have diminished the effect of their works by being too scrupulous to admit nothing into them which had not some absolute and independent merit.´ I have endeavoured to add to the interest of the letters by. describing in short notes the persons referred to - either the persons who were in intimate relation with Lady Granville, or those about whom the reader might like to know something. The descriptive notes only occur the first time any one is mentioned. Lady Harriet Cavendish was the youngest daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire. Before she came of age she lost her mother, the beautiful Duchess. 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.
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