The Manuscripts Of The Duke Of Leeds The Bridgewater Trust Reading Corporation The Inner Temple C PDF Download

Excerpt from The Manuscripts of the Duke of Leeds, the Bridgewater Trust, Reading Corporation, the Inner Temple &C Mss. Or tee his edition of Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual) in the family mansion D0 01' leeds' in London, two parcels of papers marked Secret, which he hoped might contain the desired information, but which he was not then permitted to examine. Many of the letters addressed to the Earl of Holdernesse are marked Secret and Private and if the parcels in question are now included among the papers at Hornby, it may well be the case that they comprehended all the letters and papers relating to the royal princes. It is noticeable that for the period from 1760 to the Earl's death in 1778 there is scarcely anything now existing besides the papers relating to his office in the royal family. To examine particularly every one of the letters in the mass of correspondence has been, of course, impossible; but the fact that the above-mentioned period exhibits almost an entire dearth of correspondence enables me to say, with a tolerable degree oil certainty, that the desired clue to the mystery is not to be found in this collection. 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.