Excerpt from Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain; Volumes Five to Eight It happens, by Fors' appointment, that the piece of my early life which I have already written for this month's let ter, sufficiently answers the imputation of my dislike to lords and squires. But I will preface it, in order to illus trate my dislike of clergymen, by a later bit of biography which, at the rate of my present progress in giving account of myself, I should otherwise, as nearly as I can calculate, reach only about the year 1975. Last summer, in Rome, I lodged at the Hotel de Russie and, in the archway of the courtyard of that mansion, waited usually, in the mornings, a Capuchin friar, begging for his monastery. 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.