The House in St. Martin's Street: Being Chronicles of the Burney Family

Excerpt from The House in St. Martin's Being Chronicles of the Burney Family IT has been observed by a shrewd writer that there is no collection of letters belonging to the eighteenth century that has not an interest to-day. It is, he adds, from letters alone that we can sincerely and honestly reconstruct the past. 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.