Mary Mary
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 368
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Excerpt from Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, Vol. 1 of 2: Now First Published From the Originals, Collected From Various It may appear remarkable that so considerable a portion of the private confidential correspondence of one whose actions and character have been so closely investigated, and so widely discussed, should have remained unpublished and almost unknown. The wonder ceases, however, when it is remem bered that a large proportion of her letters went abroad and remained there. Those to her ambas sador at Paris, the Archbishop of Glasgow, are in the Bethune Collection; and those which she addressed to foreign' princes and their ministers have been locked up in the archives of their fami lies and in other continental repositories. At the time of the French revolution some of the royal autographs were purloined from the archives of the kingdom, and were even carried to Warsaw and St. Petersburgh, where they are preserved in the Im perial Library. 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.