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Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan; A Story of the Times of Whitefield and the Wesleys
Diary of Mrs Kitty Trevylyan A Story of the Times of Whitefield and the Wesleys Author:Elizabeth Rundle Charles General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: M.W. Dodd 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 selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE Fo the American Edition of the " Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan." jHE welcome which has been given, in many American homes, to the "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family" makes the author feel it is scarcely sending Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan and her friends among strangers, to introduce them in America. Whitefield and the Wesleys are our common countrymen, and their work belongs as much to America as to England, standing as they do as the well-spring of a stream of blessing which has flowed ever since in scarcely parted currents through both countries. It is pleasant to the writer to hope that, while so many books by American authors are among the household treasures of our English homes, this volume may, by its welcome in 8 THE . i UTEORS PREFA CE. American homes, form one more of those links of good will and sympathy, which, like the delicate fibres of the grasses which cement the sands and keep off the ocean from our shores, though each insignificant in itself, yet together weave the closest bonds between families and nations, and the strongest barriers against all that could dhdde. Odober, 1864. Wedneiday, May the JKnt, 1745. [OTHER always said that on the day I became sixteen she would give me a book of my own, in which'to keep a Diary. I have wished for it ever since I was ten, because Mother herself always keeps a Diary ; and when anything went wrong in the house, -- when Jack was provoking, or Father was passionate with him, or when our maid Betty was more than usually wilful, or our man Roger more than usually stupid, -- she would retire ...« less