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Title: George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

Editor: E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
Release Date: September 5, 2005 [eBook #16661]
Language: English
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GEORGE SELWYN: HIS LETTERS AND HIS LIFE
Edited by
E. S. ROSCOE AND HELEN CLERGUE
London
T. Fisher Unwin
Paternoster Square
1899



PREFACE
IN the histories and memoirs of the eighteenth century the name of
George Selwyn often occurs. The letters which he received have
afforded frequent and valuable material to the student of the reign
of George the Third. A large number of these were published by the
late Mr. Jesse in the four volumes entitled "George Selwyn and his
Contemporaries." Except, however, that Selwyn was regarded as the
first humourist of his time, little was known about him, for
scarcely any letters which he wrote had until recently been found.
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