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Excerpt from George Selwyn and the Wits
When we have mentioned the volumes of Mr Jesse and the Carlisle correspondence, together with such well-known store houses of Selwynian wit as Walpole's letters, we have practic ally exhausted the published sources of information about George Selwyn. To these I am now-by the kindness of the Hon. Robert marsham-townshend, of Frognal - enabled to add a number of letters addressed by Selwyn to his niece Mary Townshend, and her brother Charles Townshend, mostly in the years 1778-1779, when Selwyn was abroad, in Italy and Paris. These letters are in some ways even more interesting and characteristic than the correspondence with Carlisle. They are written in a purer English style, and they give us a glimpse of the very pleasant relations which existed at that period between Selwyn and the members of his own family. Further, they fill a gap in the Carlisle correspondence, caused by the absence of Selwyn in Italy and of Carlisle in America. But again, the letters of George Selwyn are not, like the letters of Horace Walpole or William Cowper, sacrosanct, and I have not hesitated to cut them when it seemed to me desirable to do so.
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