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Excerpt from Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches Among the numerous papers, letters, journals, of the late Duchess of Devonshire which fell into the hands of her executors, were found several small volumes of Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Persons, which gives them an interest. The Duchess herself was a person of acknowledged talent, and associating with all that were most celebrated at home and abroad, no one could be better qualified than herself in forming a just opinion of the persons she came in contact with, and by most of whom she was loved and admired. 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.