Excerpt from The Story of Two Noble Lives, Vol. 1: Being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford Surviving friends and relations have urged a gathering up of the precious fragments from the lives of two gifted and beautiful sisters, well known and greatly beloved in their lifetime, but who have left no descendants behind them, and whose contemporaries are rapidly passing away. In their former home of Highcliffe, immense masses remain from the letters and journals of the elder sister, Charlotte, Lady Canning, preserved as precious memorials by her mother and sister, when the hand that wrote them was still for ever. With these, have been found many letters from the group of remarkable women by whom the childhood and youth of the sisters were surrounded sometimes of general interest and historic in themselves, and more often valuable to a narrower circle from the glimpses they give of the family life at Paris, Bure, Tyttenhanger, and Highcliffe. 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.