A Letter Book / Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing

LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
NEW YORK: HARCOURT, BRACE AND CO. 1922

If, however, there was no need to rely on any of these books, they did nothing to hinder in the peculiar way in which I had feared some hindrance. For it is a nuisance to find that somebody else has done something in the precise way in which you have planned doing it. I have not yet encountered that nuisance here. Dr. Jessopp's general plan is most like mine—indeed some similarity was unavoidable: but the two are not identical, and I had planned mine before I knew anything about his.
Besides the thanks given to Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, Mr. Kipling and Dr. Williamson in the text in reference to certain new or almost new letters, we owe very sincere gratitude for permission to reprint the following important matters:
His Honour Judge Parry. Two letters from Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple.
Messrs. Douglas & Foulis. A letter to Joanna Baillie, from Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott.
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. Two letters from Mrs. Carlyle's Letters and Memorials, and one letter from Sir G. O. Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.
Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Three letters from The Letters of Charles Dickens ; one letter by FitzGerald and one by Thomas Carlyle, from Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald ; one letter from Charles Kingsley: his Letters and Memories of his Life ; and two extracts from Further Records, 1848-1883, by Frances Anne Kemble.
Mr. John Murray. One letter from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
1 Royal Crescent, Bath, October, 1921 .