Excerpt from The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. 3: With Selections From His Correspondence A word is needed to tell the history of this Volume and to explain its fragmentary shape. When the papers relating to the life of Lord Palmerston, which the late Lord Dalling had left behind him, were placed in my hands, they were in so confused and unfinished a state that there was very great diffi culty in arranging them so as to present anything like a consecutive narrative, while avoiding altera tions of the text. It was desired that what he had written should be given to the public, and yet it could not possibly be published as it stood. It became necessary, therefore, literally to piece the garment together, and to connect the eloquent tatters by means of new matter. Chapters II V., VI., VII., and XL, and some of the notes to the letters in Chapters VIII. And IX comprise, with a few unimportant additions, the work of Lord Dalling. The biography is not carried down beyond the year 1847, as that. 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.