Forty Years of Friendship: As Recorded in the Correspondence of John Duke, Lord Coleridge and Ellis Yarnall During the Years 1856 to 1895 (Classic Reprint) - Taschenbuch

Excerpt from Forty Years of Friendship: As Recorded in the Correspondence of John Duke, Lord Coleridge and Ellis Yarnall During the Years 1856 to 1895

It was my father's hope and intention to have published the following correspondence and so transmit to his children and grand-children a permanent record of a long and steadfast friendship; nor did he think that letters revealing the intimate thoughts of his distinguished correspondent and covering a period of great historic moment would be without elements of general interest. It has merely rested with me to complete the task of preparation which he had begun, and upon which he was engaged when he laid down his pen for the last time.

Through the courtesy of Mr. Walter George Smith, of Philadelphia, I am able to include the memoir of my father which precedes the Correspondence. Lord Coleridge's life is too well known to need recapitulation here.

My thanks are due to Amy, Lady Coleridge, as Lord Coleridge's Literary Executrix, for permission to publish the letters and also for her kind assistance in preparing the proof.

I also tender my thanks to Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge and to Mr. Heinemann for permission to republish certain letters herein which have already appeared in the life of Lord Coleridge.

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