Excerpt from In and About Drury Lane, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Papers, Reprinted From the Pages of the Temple Bar MagazineBut for Pepys and Evelyn we should know but little of the social life of the seventeenth century. A host of letter writers - Walpole, Mrs. Delany, and Mrs. Montagu, at the head of them - may be said to have photographed the next century for us. Lord Malmesbury, Lord Auckland, and some others succeeded, and now we are beginning to have revelations exclusively of the first years of the nineteenth century. The most important contributor to our knowledge in this respect is the late Sir George Jackson, whose volumes, ably edited by his widow, will afford us samples of the times in which our grandmothers were young and had swains at their feet - unless war called them away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.