Letters Written During a Tour Through Normandy, Britanny, and Other Parts of France, in 1818 - Including Local and Historical Descriptions, With Remarks on the Manners and Character of the People #244921

The Letters, which without any pretension but that of veracity are now laid before the public had their origin in filial affection. They were addressed, without any view to publication, by the writer to her mother and family, during the first separation from them, for any length of time, that had occurred.<br><br>When it was suggested to the writer, by friends to whose judgment she has paid greater deference than to her own, that she should venture to give her Letters to the press, she conceived that she ought to omit all such parts as exclusively related to private or domestic affairs; though this suppression may have occasioned many abrupt and ill-connected sentences, the writer has preferred that the Letters should appear, as nearly as possible in their original form, to supplying their deficiencies by matter made up in England, when the novelty and impressions of her excursion had in some measure worn off.<br><br>The only additions the work has received since her return, consist in the careful correction and adjustment of dates, c.from which she was precluded during her journey, by the impossibility of reference to the necessary authorities.