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Impressions That Remained (Volume 1)

Impressions That Remained (Volume 1)

Smyth, Ethel

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1154403386
ISBN13: 9781154403381
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX II (PP. 207 tO 249) Paoe (a) Letters From Myself To My Mother And Other Members Of The Family, 1877-1878 . 207 (b) Letters From Elisabeth Von Herzogenberg (' Lisl '), May 27 To June 9,1878 . . 244 (-) From Myself To My Mother And Other Members Of The Family, 1877-1878. [Note.--I found the following letters among my Mother's papers, and such is the enthusiasm they radiate that I hope I may be pardoned for printing them with all their youthful redundancies on their head--(a temptation to tone down the slanginess of the style having been resisted with some difficulty). It must be remembered that those at home were waiting to hear whether my claim to having a vocation was illusory or not, so no wonder I nearly went off my head with joy at the encouragement I met with, and eagerly reported it. I lit on these letters some time after the corresponding part of the main text had been written, consequently a few incidents are described twice over--the only time this will happen in these pages. But I think it may amuse other memoir-writers beside myself to compare the two versions--separated by an interval of forty years f] W Rotterdam: July 27, 1877. My own darling Mother, --Here we are, safe and sound, after a most successful journey, with all our luggage so far intact and our persons washed and in order. . . . Well, once at Harwich we were the first people out of the train and the first on board the steamer, thus getting the pick of the berths. We sat up on deck until one o'clock and anything more beautiful than the night you cannot imagine, a very calm sea and brilliant moonlight. As we left the breakwater behind we passed close to a bell buoy which tolled in the most eerie and dismal manner imaginable. I slept like a top till the stewardess called me just...

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