Excerpt from Letter-Books of John Hervey, First Earl of Bristol, Vol. 1 of 3: With Sir Thomas Hervey's Letters During Courtship and Poems During Widowhood, 1651 to 1750; 1651 to 1715, With Five Portraits II. III. Two quarto volumes with Clasps, containing only letters between Lord and Lady Bristol. Some of these have been copied by Lord Bristol's hand. They range from July 1695 (when the future Lady Bristol was still Mrs. Felton, though she was within a week of becoming Mrs. Hervey, ) to Dec. 1737, when by the death of Queen Caroline Lady Bristol's duties at Court came to an end. A few poems are copied in at the beginning and end of them, and these I have printed in an Appendix to Lord Bristol's Diary. 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.