Letters Of Mary Russell Mitford 2nd Series Vol 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Vol. 1 of 2: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends As one of the earliest of Miss Mitford's friends, I was prompted to give the story of her life not only by my admiration of her genius, but from feeling that such an example of self-sacrifice to filial duty as her life affords ought not to be left without a record. I thought this might best be done by a connected series of her letters, which, while it related in her own words the events as they occurred, and what were her feelings under them, might show her opinions on the books she read, and the people among whom she lived; the varying moods of her mind, and the permanent qualities of her character. On entering on this task, I was very little aware of the difficulties that attended it. These did not arise from any lack of material. There was a large quantity of family letters left among Miss Mitford's papers, and several of her friends were most kindly willing to supply me with any thing in their possession which might be of service to my undertaking. But, on the contrary, the difficulty lay in the quantity and the condition of the MSS. As the mass of papers lay before me, I seemed to have entered on the disentanglement of some gigantic puzzle, of which the clew was nowhere to be found. 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.