Helen Paterson Allingham
Published: 2015-06-28
Total Pages: 334
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Excerpt from Letters to William Allingham William Allingham had a wide circle of friends, as will be remembered by readers of his Diary: and it has been thought that a collection of their letters to him would be of interest to many. During the greater part of the time covered by these letters, Allingham was living in Ireland: and news from, and of, his friends in London was eagerly welcomed by him. It is much to be wished that there were at hand more of Allingham's own letters; but, excepting in three notable cases - in the correspondence with Leigh Hunt, with Emerson, and with Arthur Hughes - very few of his replies have been obtained. The first intention was to arrange the letters in groups; but the number of the writers, the absence in many cases of any connection between them beyond their common friendship with Allingham, and the length of time often covered by the letters of one person, made this impracticable; and it has seemed the simplest plan to place the writers alphabetically, without attempting to link them together. The book opens with the correspondence just mentioned - of Leigh Hunt, Emerson, and Hughes, with Allingham - placed in order of date under Allingham's name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
