Excerpt from The Life of Spencer Compton, Eighth Duke of Devonshire, Vol. 1 of 2: With Portraits and Other Illustrations MY chief thanks are due to the present Duke of Devonshire, who entrusted me with this work, and placed all the letters and other documents connected with it at my free disposal. It may be well to say that, beyond this, his Grace is responsible for nothing whatever which is contained in this book. I also wish to express my grati tude to all those who have permitted me to see and use letters, or have given ...
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Excerpt from The Life of Spencer Compton, Eighth Duke of Devonshire, Vol. 1 of 2: With Portraits and Other Illustrations MY chief thanks are due to the present Duke of Devonshire, who entrusted me with this work, and placed all the letters and other documents connected with it at my free disposal. It may be well to say that, beyond this, his Grace is responsible for nothing whatever which is contained in this book. I also wish to express my grati tude to all those who have permitted me to see and use letters, or have given me information orally or other wise. I am much indebted to Mr. Henry Cavendish, who, before I began the work, over two years ago, had sorted and arranged, as a labour of love, the tangled correspondence which lay at Devonshire House in rich confusion, and has helped me much in other ways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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