Excerpt from The Life of Charles James Mathews, Chiefly Autobiographical, Vol. 2: With Selections From His Correspondence and Speeches Three weeks afterwards he wrote Degrees I have not wished to let you know anything about it, as it was expected to prove the small-pox every day. However, there is no danger of that now, and I am almost well and it was not until his complete convalescence that the full truth was told. NO permanent ill effects followed the disorder, but it was long before the anxious mother could be persuaded that all was well. In Florence Mathews now stayed for some months, enjoying perhaps the happiest time he had ever yet spent. The beautiful city on the Arno was at that period the resort of many English families Of distinction. 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.