Preface ix 



Mrs Vaughan Williams of Leith Hill Place, Mrs Godfrey 

 Wedgwood, Mr Cecil Wedgwood, my brother Horace, and 

 my nephew Charles Darwin, have been so good as to allow 

 me to reproduce various family pictures. I also wish to 

 thank Miss M. J. Shaen for allowing me to use her excellent 

 photograph of my mother, taken in the drawing-room at 

 Down, three months before her death. 



These volumes were originally prepared for private circu- 

 lation only. It was suggested to me by many of those who 

 read them that they would interest a larger public. I have, 

 therefore, prepared them for publication by omitting what 

 was of purely private interest. 



xi. E. L. 



BURROWS HILL, 



GOMSHALL, 

 SURREY. 



