Author : Francis W. De Winton
Release : 2017-11-22
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay by : Francis W. De Winton
Download or read book A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay written by Francis W. De Winton. This book was released on 2017-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay: Sometime Minister at the Court of Morocco Based on His Journal and Correspondence ON his retirement from public service in 1886, Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, at the instance of many friends, undertook to set down the recollections of his life. Some of these notes were published in M army's Magazine in 1887 under the title of 'scraps from my Note-book'; others were laid by to be incorporated in a complete volume. The work was, however, interrupted by an accident to one of his eyes which rendered it impossible for him to write. For a time he confined himself to dictating to my sister, who acted as his amanuensis, quaint stories and detached incidents connected with the Moors, intending to resume the continuous tale of his life when his sight grew stronger. But, shortly after the recovery of his eyesight, and before he had proceeded much further in 'unwinding the skein of his memories, ' he was prostrated by a severe illness, followed by influenza, of which he died in 1893. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
