After Waterloo (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Frye, William Edward) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from After Waterloo The knowledge of Major Frye´s manuscript and the privilege of publishing it for the first time I owe to the kindness of two French ladies, the Misses G Their father, a well-known artist and critic, used to spend the summer months at Saint Germ&in-en-Laye together with his wife, who was an Englishwoman by birth. They had been for along time intimately acquainted with Major Frye, who lived and ended his life in that quiet town. The Major´s hostess, Mme. de W after his death m 1858, brought the manuscript to Mrs. G and gave it to her in memory of her friend. It was duly preserved in the G family, but remained unnoticed. The Misses G rediscovered it in 1907, when it had been lying in a cupboard for upwards of half a century. On their showing it to me I thought it was interesting for many reasons, and worthy of introduction to the public. I hope the reader will share my opinion, which is also that of several English scholars and men of letters, to whom I communicated extracts from the manuscript. The reminiscences are in the form of letters addressed to a correspondent who, however, is never named and of whose health, family and private circumstances not the slightest mention is to be found. So I am inclined to believe that he never existed, and that Major Frye chose to imitate President de Brosses and others who thus recorded their travelling experiences in epistolary form. The manuscript - which will eventually be deposited in a public library - is entirely in Major Frye´s large and legible hand; at some later time it was evidently revised by himself, but many names which I have endeavoured to complete were left in blank or only indicated by initials. There are three folio volumes, bound in paper boards. 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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