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Excerpt from Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel: Compiled by Her Daughter Ethel Peel Readers will observe when reading through these pages, how many are the quotations from National History and from family records. These are there by the kind permission of the authors and publishers to solidify and in some cases verify the recollections, which, covering so wide a space of time, might without them seem shadowy. I am particularly indebted to Mr. Basil Champneys for allowing some paragraphs from the "Life of Adelaide Drummond," a book which brought additional memories to the mind of her sister; to the Duke of Bedford for permission to insert some of the early letters of John sixth Duke of Bedford and those of his wife; to the Hon. Bertrand Russell for contributing his contradiction of Euclid fulfilling the prophecy of Sydney Smith; to Lady Agatha Russell for some letters already published in "Letters of Lady John Russell"; to the Hon. Mrs. Rollo Russell for a letter taken from "Early Correspondence of Lord John Russell"; to Lord Esher for permission to include a few extracts from the "Letters of Queen Victoria"; to Mr. Stuart Reid for an extract from "Life of Lord John Russell," and the letter of Count Cavour. 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.