For the gift without the giver is bare.”
Vision of Sir Launfal.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1913
Copyright
PREFACE
It was but a short time before the death of Miss Octavia Hill that one of her sisters succeeded, with much difficulty, in convincing her that some account of her life would be necessary to satisfy the public demand.
On realising this fact, she expressed a strong wish that the family should keep the details of such a memoir in their own hands; and she afterwards made a special request that the final decision as to what should be published, and what suppressed, should rest with me.