The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, Vol. 2: Preserved at Welbeck Abbey The second volume of Calendar of the Portland papers, though not entitled to the recommendation possessed by its predecessor of being associated with the name of Nalson, still contains much that should be of interest to antiquaries and students of history. The same remark applies to it which might have been made with reference to the first, that it contains nothing relating to the Bentinck family. This is not, of course, because the Welbeck muniment room contains no records of that family, but because it is intended to treat of them in a later volume, when the correspondence of the earlier families now represented by the house of Portland, and which were flourishing before the Bentincks came to England, has been thoroughly disposed of. The bulk of the papers in this first category relate to the Harley family. They commence with the seventeenth century, and appear to include the whole of the correspondence, public and private, of the minister, Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, or at least so much of it as he thought fit to preserve, or neglected to destroy. But the publication of these Harley papers has been postponed, with the exception of the correspondence of Nathaniel Harley, the youngest brother of the minister. This Nathaniel was for many years a merchant at Aleppo, and having been cut off from his family by the distance at which he lived, the imperfect means of communication which then existed, and the wars which raged throughout Europe during nearly the whole time of his residence in Asia Minor, he was quite out of touch with England and English concerns, and was frequently ignorant of the most important events for years after they happened. 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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