Excerpt from Letters to an Unknown They are real and the best object of the real is to serve in the making of the ideal. But students may find in them notes on the manners of an epoch, documents on the state of mind of men and women who are famous, revelations of hearts that were com plex and not easily defined; the sincere ex pression of an admirable individuality. 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.