MEMOIRS OF GEORGIANA, LADY CHATTERTON. WITH SOME PASSAGES FROM HER DIARY BY EDWARD HENEAGE DERING, AUTHOR OF 66 HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS. 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. . TO THE RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM. My dear Lord, By your kind permission I have the honour and advantage of dedicating to your Lordship this memoir of my most beloved and most lamented wife. Were I to say that I had the strongest reasons for asking you to grant me that favour, I should indeed say the truth, but imply something less; for the fact is that it was morally impossible for me to have done otherwise. You, my Lord, read her soul from the very beginning of your acquaintance, helped and supported her through the worst of her spiritual trials, guided her when the time had come for direction, comforted me, as no one else could have done, in the bitter sorrow that so soon came upon me. Of the letters you wrote to her, the sermon |