Excerpt from Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Vol. 2 of 2: Written During the Years 1818, '19& '20, From Edinburgh, London, the Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland Alicia was the magnet that attracted me the most - You can form no idea of the beauty and charms of this fascinating creature. The shab hiness of my attire prevented me from mono polizing her conversation; but the whole af ternoon I feasted my eyes on the exquisite face and form of this cunning'er pattern of excelling nature. Then her voice! 0h! She would sing the savageness out of a bear! Her mother told me that she had spent a couple of winters in Paris, which accounted for her grace and accomplishments - Butl was very sorry to hear that Miss was engaged to a very rich, very stupid and very old fellow. Really this is too much. Alicia cannot possibly be happy with such a man, however grand may be her house, coaches and liveries! 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.