The Despatches of Earl Gower: English Ambassador at Paris from June 1790 to August 1792, to Which Are Added the Despatches of Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Monro, and the Diary of Viscount Palmerston in France During July and August 1791, Now Published for the Firs

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Excerpt from The Despatches of Earl Gower: English Ambassador at Paris From June 1790 to August 1792, to Which Are Added the Despatches of Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Monro, and the Diary of Viscount Palmerston in France During July and August 1791, Now Published for the First Time

Gower's description which was not in Carlyle, there was a great deal in Carlyle which was not in Lord Gower. Undaunted by these refusals, I applied to a fourth publisher of well-known liberality. He went so far as to have the correspondence copied at his expense, but after having read it he came to the conclusion that it could not be published without heavy loss. After these experiences it required great courage on the part of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press to under take a work so little likely to prove remunerative, and by doing it they deserve the gratitude of all serious students of history.

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Oscar Browning (1837-1923) was an English writer, historian, and educational reformer. Works: England and Napoleon in 1803, History of England (4 vols.), Dante, Life and Works, Wars of the Nineteenth Century, History of Europe 1814-1843, Guelphs and Ghibellines, The Age of the Condottieri, Napoleon, the first Phase, Memories of Sixty Years at Eton, Cambridge and Elsewhere.

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