Excerpt from Letters From Egypt, 1863-65 In the short introduction to Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, published last year, I used some expressions which I am tempted to repeat here, because their description of the qualities which characterized those Letters, and the motives which prompted their publication, apply, and with still greater force, to those now submitted to the public. 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.