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BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE
OF THE PORTRAITS AT LONGLEAT
IN THE COUNTY OF WILTS
THE SEAT OF THE MARQUIS OF BATH

BIOGRAPHICAL
CATALOGUE
OF THE PORTRAITS
AT LONGLEAT
IN THE COUNTY
OF WILTS
THE SEAT OF
THE MARQUIS OF BATH
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‘A true delineation, even of the smallest man, andhis scene of pilgrimage through life, is capable ofinteresting the greatest man; for all men are to anunspeakable degree brothers, each man’s life a strangeemblem of every man’s, and human portraits faithfullydrawn are, of all pictures, the welcomest onhuman walls.’ Carlyle.

LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK
1881.
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DEDICATION
TO THE OWNERS OF THAT BEAUTIFUL HOME,
ENDEARED TO ME BY THE KINDNESS AND FRIENDSHIP
OF THREE GENERATIONS,
THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED
BY THEIR FAITHFUL KINSWOMAN
MARY LOUISA BOYLE.

London, September 1881.

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I FEEL it incumbent upon me tooffer a few words of apology forthe shortcomings and inequalitiesof this small work, and the disproportionof the length of some notices, andthat of others; but I have had many difficultiesto contend with since I began my pleasantlabours,—the absence, for instance, of books ofreference when travelling, and still more, thefailure of sight, which has rendered me morethan usually dependent on the kind help of...

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