A Series of Letters of the First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from A Series of Letters of the First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. 1 of 2: His Family and Friends From 1745 to 1820; Edited, With Notes &C The first was in 1762 a Lord of the Admiralty, afterwards a Lord of the Treasury, and then Secretary and Comptroller of the Household of Queen Charlotte until his death, which occurred in 1780. His son obtained a peerage for his services in diplomacy, and his grandson held office under the administrations of Mr. Pitt and the Duke of Portland James Harris was no pedant, as might be inferred from the dry philosophy of his works. He was passionately fond of music and art, and he wrote treatises on both. His wife lived much in society, and appears to have had similar tastes. Their letters will show how they patronised the best artists of the day at their house in the cathedral town of Salisbury. This ancient mansion has been held by my family under the Church since 1660, and is a curious specimen of its kind, being grafted upon and including part of the old ramparts of the Close, with a regular warren of rooms on various levels. The description of the fetes and social intercourse in the venerable city of Sarum during the parliamentary recess show how much more lively our cathedral towns were a century ago, and how much less of cliques and class categories then existed among the nobility and their neighbours than in the present day. 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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