Excerpt from Personal Literary Letters of Robert, First Earl of Lytton, Vol. 1 of 2 My warm thanks are due to all who have sent me the letters in their possession, and I only regret that I have not had space to insert, consistently with the scheme Of the book, many more of those that I have received. There could be no greater proof of the value set upon my father's letters by those to whom they were written than the immense number Of them which have been preserved. These letters flowed from his pen without effort or premeditation, and are as natural and as intimate as his talk; their form is literary and poetical only because literature and poetry were part Of himself. 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.