My Life and Work (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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My eyesight, however, began to fail, resulting in a short time in almost total blindness, which compelled me to resort to dictation, leading to much inconvenience and difficulties, as in the second and third parts constant reference was required to newspapers and periodicals to ensure accuracy in treating of public affairs which I could not do myself. This accounts for the mixing up of purely personal and family affairs with public events of the time.

When the memoirs were finished and had been read by some of my family and Mr. John Lane, they thought it might be of some interest to a Wider circle and urged its publication, to which I assented.

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