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PREFACE
Once upon a time an Italian
nobleman built himself a funereal monument. On being asked why he did not
leave the care of this work to his relatives after his death, he replied
that he had little confidence in their taking the trouble or going to the
expense of doing so.
Agreeing with this Italian, I have compiled these recollections from my old
journals—diaries which will probably serve to light the kitchen fire when
their author has departed.
At any rate, I save others the trouble of looking through a large amount of
ill-written MSS. ; and I hope that these Reminiscences will not prove
entirely without interest to the general reader, on whose indulgence I throw
myself.
R. G.
Barcelona: Dec. 2, 1882.
My Reminiscences
By Lord Ronald Gower, F.S.A. in two volumes (1883)
Volume 1 | Volume 2
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