EXTRACTS

OF THE

JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE

OF

MISS BERRY

FROM THE YEAR 1783 TO 1852.

EDITED BY

LADY THERESA LEWIS.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

LONG MANS, GREEN, AND CO.

PREFACE.

THERE being no obvious reason why the editorship of Miss Berry's Journals, Letters, and Papers should have devolved on a person unconnected with her by the ties of blood, or of long and early intimacy, it may be satisfactory to the reader to know that the task was undertaken at Miss Berry's own request.

Miss Berry had bequeathed all her papers to the late Sir Frankland Lewis. Not long before the close of her life, she informed Lady Theresa Lewis that she had done so, adding that, in case of his death, and of his not having had time to deal with these MSS., she wished her to promise to take charge of them, and not let them pass into any other hands. After the death of her fatherin-law, the contents of two large trunks were put into Lady Theresa Lewis's hands.

The late Mr. Charles Greville had been named in some testamentary paper many years before,