Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The House in St. Martin's Street: Being Chronicles of the Burney Family
IT has been observed by a shrewd writer that there is no collection of letters belonging to the eighteenth century that has not an interest to-day. It is, he adds, from letters alone that we can sincerely and honestly reconstruct the past.
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