Since I closed these Memoirs my sister, Alice Meynell, has passed away.
I feel that it is not out of place to record here the fact of her desire that I should reduce the mention of her name throughout the book. In the original text it had figured much oftener alongside of my own. Her wish to keep her personality always retired prevailed upon me to delete many an allusion to her which would have graced the text, greatly to its advantage.
ELIZTH. BUTLER.
31st December, 1922.
[1] The cattle plague was raging in England.
[2] William I., afterwards German Emperor.
[3] The severe Lady Superintendent.
[4] Whose son, Mr. Alfred Pollard, C.B., became the head of the British Museum Printed Book Department.