Excellent :cheers: I LOVE these kinds of finds, some absolutely fascinating stuff in there :cheers:
Such as. the fight against nannies is nothing new:
" VI DEDICATION.
for me that you and others find in it. But I hope these
pages will show that I have no narrow notions on a pleasure
in which I cannot participate ; but rather a honest detest-
ation of that want of Christian tolerance which has induced
some persons to denounce a harmless indulgence as if it were
a moral evil. I should be untrue to my father's memory —
" an honest man and a good smoker" — if I did not contradict
such gratuitous imputations. If I am proud of anything, it
is of my father and his seventy-two years of industry and
integrity.
That you are " a good smoker " also, I have had experi-
ence, at home and abroad, when I have examined in your
society many of the finest relics of antiquity, the study of
which has been the solace of our lives. In you I shall find a
gentle critic : you will estimate, by your own experience, that
which few who read consider, the time and trouble requisite
to gather into one volume the results of reading many a
score ; and I have been embarrassed in my task of con-
densation by the abundance rather than the paucity of my
materials.
I will not offer you any laudation here ; friendship is too
sacred a thing for public display. I only wish, that while
one copy of this little book remains, it should exist to record
the sincere esteem I feel for you.
F. W. FAIRHOLT.
11 Montpelier Square,
Buomi'tw, London,
Jane 1, 1S59. "
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Many thanks
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