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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... "THE NOBLE LETTERS OF THE DEAD" winning personality. She dressed becomingly and appropriately, with feeling and good taste, and her stately picturesque figure was for many years one of the most pleasing sights of the West End of London. Mrs. Procter, Fanny Kemble, Adelaide (Kemble), Sartoris, and many others, all kept close or drew closer as their own time drew short; while her dearest and perhaps her closest friends are happily still alive, viz., Mrs. Walker Fanshawe, the daughter of the brilliant Mrs. Fanshawe, the "Totty" for whom Thackeray bought "Pride and Prejudice;" Miss Annie Ogle, the author of "A Lost Love," a delightful book, which the author of "Vanity Fair" himself pronounced to be one of the best written of the century; and Thackeray's own dear daughter, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, whose affection for Mrs. Brookfield, faithful and admiring in her childhood, lasted throughout her life, and remains even until this day. I read Of that glad year that once had been In these fall'n leaves that kept their green, The noble letters of the dead. INDEX Abbot (Speaker) Charles, first Baron Colchester, 13 Abercrombie, Lady, 478 "Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Elton," 63 Ainsworth, William Harrison, 296, 297 Albert, Prince Consort, 78, 86, 210, 216, 226, 373, 474 Alboni, Madame, 222 Alderson, Mrs., 279 Alice of Hesse, Princess, 506 Althorp, Lord, 10 "Amelia" of "Vanity Fair," 247, 248 Anderson, Hans, 215 Andrewes, 191, 192 Artists' Dinner, The, 137, 138 Ashburton, Harriet, Lady, 271, 272, 293, 321, 322, 323, 342, 366, 367, 368, 369, 381, 382, 383, 387, 389, 390, 391, 392, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 407, 408, 412, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 434, 435, 436, 437, 439, 440, 441, 448, 454, 455, 456, 457 Letters: to Mrs. Brookfield, 366, 368, 382...
