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Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From 1783 to 1852, Ed. by Lady Theresa Lewis
Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From 1783 to 1852 Ed by Lady Theresa Lewis Author:Mary Berry General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE THE FIRST EDITION There being no obvious reason why the editorship of Miss Berry's Journals, Letters, and Papers should have devolved on a person unconnected with her by the ties of blood, or of long and early intimacy, it may be satisfactory to the reader to know that the task was undertaken at Miss Berry's own request, Miss Berry had bequeathed all her papers to the late Sir Frankland Lewis. Not long before the close of her life, she informed Lady Theresa Lewis that she had done so, adding that, in case of his death, and of his not having had time to deal with these MSS., she wished her to promise to take charge of them, and not let them pass into any other hands. After the death of her father- in-law, the contents of two large trunks were put into Lady Theresa Lewis's hands. The late Mr. Charles Greville had been named in some testamentary paper many years before, as one of those to whom Miss Berry wished to have her papers transferred; but Mr. Greville at once declared his wish to abide by Miss Berry's later request to the Editor. Miss Berry had taken a very kind and flattering interest in the 'Lives from the Clarendon Gallery' (published 1852), and the Editor had reason to believe that it was owing to her approbation of that work (which had been read to her in MS.) that she was thus selected. The task of reading, of selection, and of arrangement from such a mass of MSS. has been somewhat laborious ; nor has it been easy, or even possible in all cases, to identify the various persons alluded to in so long a life. The want of any books of reference on...« less