Excerpt from Recollections of the Public Career and Private Life of the Late John Adolphus, the Eminent Barrister and Historian: With Extracts From His Diaries Adolphus, in 1862, I have been constantly urged to publish my recollections of my father. The cares and occupations of married life, however, rendered such a task impossible, and even now, when in my solitude it is a pleasure and relief to me to revive old scenes and ehermhed memories, I do it with regret that an abler pen could not accomplish what I know would have been a labour of love to a son who looked on his father With the truest respect, admiration, and afl'ection. By the help of diaries and my memory, which is a pretty correct one, I hope to bring back some scenes to those old enough to remember them, readers in the events of many years back, and the sayings and doings of a man whose name they have heard as one of the celebrities of hishim]; but I shall only do sowhen necesu-y to Blush-e me: or relate fact: which I should feel it a duty to do in his own words. Unfortunately, and much to his regret, he did not in his younger days write a copious imirnal, but simply noted down what he had done in the day. In making extracts from the descriptive journals rt! The last seven years of his life, I must crave in diligence should any of the anecdotes I may quote have Immured elsewhere, as is but too probable. I shall now begin by an extract from a very old paper, found after his Math, in which he gives an account of his earliest years. 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.