Irish Memories

IRISH MEMORIES


VIOLET FLORENCE MARTIN.
BY E. Œ. SOMERVILLE AND MARTIN ROSS AUTHORS OF “SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M.,” “THE REAL CHARLOTTE,” ETC. WITH 23 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY E. Œ. SOMERVILLE AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS THIRD IMPRESSION NEW YORK: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET 1918


I have many people to thank, for many things, and I have an explanation to make, but the thanks must come first.
I offer my most sincere gratitude to Mrs. Butler and to Professor Edgeworth, for their kindness in permitting me to print Miss Edgeworth’s letters to Mrs. Bushe; to Lord Dunsany, for the extract from “Plays of Gods and Men,” which has said for me what I could not say for myself; to the Editors of the Spectator and of Punch , for their permission to use Martin Ross’s letter and the quatrain to her memory; to the Hon. Mrs. Campbell, the Right Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, P.C., Captain Stephen Gwynn, M.P., Lady Coghill, Colonel Dawson, and other of Martin Ross’s friends, for lending me the letters that she wrote to them; even when these are not quoted verbatim, they have been of great service to me, and I am very grateful for having been allowed to see them.