BEING THE CORRESPONDENCE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED OF MARY AND AGNES BERRY (1763-1852). BY LEWIS MELVILLE WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN. MCMXIV Br 6302.SRC HARVARD OCT 18 1957 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh T PREFACE HE Misses Berry died in 1852, and thirteen years later appeared Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Mary Berry, which had been prepared for press by Lady Theresa Lewis. As the title indicates, these volumes included but a selection of the papers left by Mary Berry, and the present work may be regarded as supplementary to the "Extracts." The hitherto unpublished correspondence includes letters written by, or addressed to, the two sisters, Professor John Playfair, Maria Edgeworth, Richard Owen Cambridge, Elizabeth Montagu, Lord Jeffery, John Whishaw, the sixth Duke of Devonshire, the Carlisles, the Hardwickes, the second Lord Palmerston, Thomas Brand, Lord Colchester, the Countess of Albany, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, Richard Westmacott, Lord Dudley, Lady Charlotte Campbell, Sarah Austin, the Hon. Caroline Howe, Lord Dover, Chevalier Jerningham, Dean Milman, &c. There is also printed for the first time a long series of self-revealing letters exchanged between Mary Berry and the Hon. Mrs. Damer, concerning which the former wrote in 1842: "These letters, selected from a hundred others, I cannot bring myself to destroy. I cannot for my soul obliterate all memory of the truest, the most faithful and |