Letters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Letters When a friend of Dr. Mozley's maturer years - one to whose judgment all would defer suggested to the possessor of his papers and home correspondence the publication of a selection of his letters, saying, that having had occasion to look over old letters, his stood out among them as full of force and interest, the idea, which had never suggested itself before, became at once interesting, finding encouragement in the fact of the large number of his letters that have been preserved. The habit, in some members of his family, of keeping letters, has preserved James Mozley's letters to his home through the various shifts and changes that time brings about: the vicissitudes of life and death sometimes laying question and answer, comment and criticism, side by side in startling conjunction. In the attempt to form a collection of letters which are to illustrate a character as well as a course of events, the difficulty starts at the outset, how or where to begin: for it is impossible not to feel, when a character is looked into, how much the early childhood of a mind affects its whole subsequent development. Those who care for letters in this light, and not merely as records of events, do care to know under what circumstances and influences the manner of writing has been formed, and if these are to be shown, it must be by means outside the writers own knowledge and consciousness. Advantages are subtle things. 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.