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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.), by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Author: Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi Release Date: February 14, 2005 [EBook #15045] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Leonard Johnson and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. [Illustration] AUTOBIOGRAPHY LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE) EDITED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE AND WRITINGS BY A. HAYWARD, ESQ. Q.C. * * * * * Welcome, Associate Forms, where'er we turn Fill, Streatham's Hebe, the Johnsonian urn--St. Stephen's * * * * * In Two Volumes VOL. I. SECOND EDITION LONDON LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS 1861 * * * * * PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. * * * * * THE first edition of a work of this kind is almost necessarily imperfect; since the editor is commonly dependent for a great deal of the required information upon sources the very existence of which is unknown to him till reminiscences are revived, and communications invited, by the announcement or publication of the book. Some valuable contributions reached me too late to be properly placed or effectively worked up; some, too late to be included at all. The arrangement in this edition will therefore, I trust, be found less faulty than in the first, whilst the additions are large and valuable. They principally consist of fresh extracts from Mrs. Piozzi's private diary ("Thraliana"), amounting to more than fifty pages; of additional marginal notes on books, and of copious extracts from letters hitherto unpublished. Amongst the effects of her friend Conway, the actor, after his untimely death by drow
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