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Memoir of John Murray
Fanny Kemble to John Murray, 8 May 1831
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chap. XX.
Chap. XXI.
Chap. XXII.
Chap. XXIII.
Chap. XXIV.
Chap. XXV.
Chap. XXVI.
Chap. XXVII.
Chap. XXVIII.
Chap. XXIX.
Chap. XXX.
Chap. XXXI.
Chap. XXXII.
Chap. XXXIII.
Chap. XXXIV.
Chap. XXXV.
Chap. XXXVI.
Chap. XXXVII.
Index
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May 8th, 1831.

I have heard something about your thinking a preface desirable. If it be necessary I will myself write it; but I should be sorry to trouble the public with reasons, hopes, fears, &c., which too often produce the very weariness they deprecate. Besides, I have no desire of entertaining the world at large with my private motives for publishing my play, or pleading as an exemption from criticism the early age at which it was written. If people are amused and interested by a work they need no reason for being so, and if not no reason can to them atone for dulness and disappointment. With many thanks,

Yours truly obliged,
Frances Ann Kemble.