AUTOBIOGRAPHY LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE) EDITED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE AND WRITINGS BY A. HAYWARD, ESQ. Q.C. Welcome, Associate Forms, where'er we turn Fill, Streatham's Hebe, the Johnsonian urn-St. Stephen's PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. THE first edition of a work of this kind is almost necessarily imperfect; since the editor is commonly dependent for a great deal of the required information upon sources the very existence of which is unknown to him till reminiscences are revived, and communications invited, by the announcement or publication of the book. Some valuable contributions reached me too late to be properly placed or effectively worked up; some, too late to be included at all. The arrangement in this edition will therefore, I trust, be found less faulty than in the first, whilst the additions are large and valuable. They principally consist of fresh extracts from Mrs. Piozzi's private diary ("Thraliana"), amounting to more than fifty pages; of additional marginal notes |