Excerpt from Fifty Years of Fleet Street: Being the Life and Recollections of Sir John R. Robinson AT the death of Sir John Robinson, it was announced in several quarters that he had left behind him a volume of Memoirs intended for publication. It is unfortunate that this should not be the case, for all who knew him can imagine how delightful would have been such a work from his pen. He did, however, leave some diaries, more or less fragmentary, and a number of thick, closely written volumes of jottings in his own handwriting descriptive of events of which he had been an eye-witness and people he had seen and known. 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.