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Excerpt from My Friends and Acquaintance, Vol. 1: Being Memorials, Mind-Portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; With Selections From Their Unpublished Letters
MY belief (with certain restrictions and reservations) in the general truth of the above axiom, has impelled me to note down from time to time during my literary life, and tempts me now to give to the world, the Memorials and Recollections which occupy the following pages.
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