Correspondence of Edmund Burke William Windham
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Excerpt from Correspondence of Edmund Burke William Windham: With Other Illustrative Letters From the Windham Papers in the British Museum The nucleus of this volume consists of fifty-three hitherto unpublished letters of Edmund Burke to William Windham, and eight to other persons, taken from the Windham Papers acquired in 1909 by the British Museum. In order to exhibit the correspondence as a whole, and to make it intelligible to those who may not be intimately acquainted with the details of the history of the period with which it is concerned, it has been necessary to add to these more than an equal number of other letters. In the first place thirteen more letters of Burke to Windham have been reprinted either from the correspondence of Burke, published by Lord Fitzwilliam, or from Windham´s Diaiy, published by Mrs Henry Baring, the originals of which do not in either case appear to have returned to the collection. Next are added ten letters of Windham to Burke, only one of which is new; so that the total of the Burke-Windham correspondence proper now amounts to seventy-six letters, the extreme dates being 1783 and 1797, though the main interest centres on the last nine years, the period between the outbreak of the French Revolution and the death of Burke. The remaining forty-two letters are selected also from the Windham Papers with a view to illustrating the subjects mentioned in Burke´s letters, and with the intention of reducing to a minimum the intervention of the editor between the original correspondence and the reader. Many of these letters are important documents, worthy of publication for their own sake, and all, so far as I am aware, are hitherto unpublished. They will serve to give an idea of the wealth of material in the collection recently acquired by the nation, but it will be understood that as the selection is made for a restricted purpose, and with prescribed limits of space, they are by no means exhaustive even for the period which they cover, which is only a small part of Windham´s political career. 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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