lar account of all the materials that suggested to her "Trelawny of Trelawne." It was on such, scanty as they are, she ventured to raise a superstructure of fiction, but without, for a moment, believing herself, or wishing others to believe (till the event proved the mistake had by many been adopted), that the inventions of her own fancy would be received as grave matters of fact.

The Vicarage, Tavistock,

Dec. 5. 1898.

lar account of all the materials that suggested

to her "Trelawny of Trelawne." It was on

such, scanty as they are, she ventured to raise

a superstructure of fiction, but without, for a

moment, believing herself, or wishing others to s

believe (till the event proved the mistake had

by many been adopted), that the inventions

of her own fancy would be received as grave

matters of fact.

The Vicarage, Taristuck,

Dec. 5. 1888.