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 realizes how expressive of his character that style and that vocabulary are, one feels something akin to revolt against any endeavour to revise the text of his letters. For my part, I have never yet seen a letter or note of Trelawny's which was expressed just as any other man would have expressed it; nor is there anything in the present collection which is not more or less redolent of the vigour and directness, the transparent honesty and complete fearlessness, of this traveller by sea and land, this warrior for the cause of freedom, in both the moral and the physical sense of those words. 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.