Excerpt from Records and Reflections: Selected From Her Writings During Half a Century (April 3rd, 1840, to April 3rd, 1890)It will be observed that many of the entries, though printed consecutively, are widely sepa rated in point of time. This is due to my Wish to select, with few exceptions, only those passages from my writings which refer to public events and personages.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.