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Transcriber's note: The etext replicates the printed book. A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text.
MISS EDEN’S LETTERS
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Pamela, Lady Campbell from a painting by Sir William Napier
MISS EDEN’S LETTERS
EDITED BY
HER GREAT-NIECE
VIOLET DICKINSON
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
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1919
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PREFACE
IT is difficult to express one’s gratitude. Mine I owe to my brother, R. E.
Dickinson, to Mrs. Ernest Farquhar (granddaughter of Lady Theresa Lewis), to Sir Guy Campbell, Mrs. W. Rendel, and Sir Arthur Stanley, for the loan of letters in this book. I also thank Mr. Claud Paget and Mr. W. Barclay Squire for the help they have given me.
Doubtless, through want of experience, I have been guilty of leaving out much that might have been left in, and leaving in much that might not be of interest.
The pleasure of knowing Lady Campbell through her letters has been doubled by the kindness I have met with from her daughters, Mrs. Ellis and
Mrs. Percy Wyndham.
Lord Cromer before his death in 1917 had been interested in reading these letters. It is due solely to his encouragement that they are now published, though lacking the Introduction he was good enough to offer to write.
A friend of mine read some of the proofs. I found on three occasions they induced sound sleep within a few minutes, which leads me to hope perhaps other readers may find them equally soothing.
V. D.
July 1919.
INTRODUCTION
IN the autumn of 1913 a Life of Lord Clarendon[1] was published, and among many of his letters were a few written to him by an old friend, Miss Eden. It was thought that a further selection of Emily Eden’s letters might be of
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