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Excerpt from Life of Octavia Hill: As Told in Her Letters
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.
It will, therefore, be understood that I am rather the editor than the author of this book. The most import ant part of this Memoir will be found in the letters and it is by my express wish that they are printed in larger type than the explanations which link them together.
But even those explanations are only in a limited sense my own work. All I have done is to weave together statements made by my wife and her sisters, a paper left by their Mother, and, in the very early part, the recollections of Octavia''s early playmate, Miss Margaret Howitt.
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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.
It will, therefore, be understood that I am rather the editor than the author of this book. The most import ant part of this Memoir will be found in the letters and it is by my express wish that they are printed in larger type than the explanations which link them together.
But even those explanations are only in a limited sense my own work. All I have done is to weave together statements made by my wife and her sisters, a paper left by their Mother, and, in the very early part, the recollections of Octavia''s early playmate, Miss Margaret Howitt.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Octavia Hill
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331732467
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 622
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Octavia Hill
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333619916
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 624
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