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Excerpt from Letters of Edward John Trelawny: Edited With a Brief Introduction and Notes by H. Buxton Forman Leaving the unpleasant subject of this ancient grievance, I recall the pleasure and keen interest with which I first read the whole of the letters from Trelawny, spreading over fifty-three years Of his long life, the earliest indited shortly after Shelley's death in 1822, when Trelawny was just upon thirty years of age, the last written in 1875, when he was eighty-three. That perusal accomplished, I said to the other man who is me Well, if you don't know anything else, you know Trelawny now and it is your bounden duty to see that those letters are not lost to the world. About the Publ...
Excerpt from Letters of Edward John Trelawny: Edited With a Brief Introduction and Notes by H. Buxton Forman In this attempt to bring together the letters of Edward John Trelawny, I have been actuated by the desire to illustrate his unique personality by means of his own utterances, and fill up as many gaps as possible in his life-record. Such indomitable force of character as Trelawny evinced up to the end of his long life could not fail to leave its impress upon every sheet of paper which he took up for the purpose of communicating with man or woman. The very unconventionality nay, even the frequent incorrectness of his style and vocabulary, have a certain attractiveness; and when one real...