Excerpt from Hitherto Unpublished Poems and Stories: With an Inedited Autobiography The rest of the sheet holds what occupies seven pages and a third in the minute original; there wasbut little revision properly so called; but now and then the brain, working faster than the hand, passed to that slavish member a premature word sometimes one that had been cancelled in the orig inal and had to be cancelled again in the fine new Copy set about for the benefit of posterity. Whether more than the one sheet was ever done I cannot state with certainty: it contains the last word that its length and breadth would hold; and it seems likely that the task was abandoned when that naughty Moses, the black pony, had to have his girths tightened by the delicate little rider, and she got injured in the spine to such a degree that, to use her words to Horne, at fifteen she nearly died. It is worth while to give here, in Opening our sec ond volume, the precise words in which she de cided to clothe her quaint preamble, and allow our readers to compare for themselves the minute de tails of the two versions. But the point in which the quarto sheet is of most value is that it makes quite clear the author's age at the time of revision: she is still fourteen. 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.