Before and After Waterloo: Letters From Edward Stanley, Sometime Bishop of Norwich 1802; 1814; 1816 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Before and After Waterloo: Letters From Edward Stanley, Sometime Bishop of Norwich 1802; 1814; 1816

The writer, Edward Stanley, was for thirty-three years an active country clergyman, and for twelve years more a no less active bishop, at a time when such activity was uncommon, though not so rare as is sometimes now supposed.

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Excerpt from Before and After Waterloo: Letters From Edward Stanley, Sometime Bishop of Norwich 1802; 1814; 1816

The originals of most of the letters now published are, with the drawings that illustrate them, at Llanfawr, Holyhead.

Some extracts from these letters have already appeared in the "Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley," but are here inserted again by kind permission of Messrs. Longman, and complete Bishop Stanley's correspondence.

Portions of letters quoted in Dean Stanley's volume, "Edward and Catherine Stanley," have also been used with Messrs. Murray's consent.

In addition to the MSS. at Llanfawr, Lord Stanley of Alderly has kindly contributed some original letters in his possession.

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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.