Excerpt from Autobiography of Miss. Cornelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Vol. 1 of 2 A book of this kind scarcely needs a sponsor. It carries the impression of its authenticity on every page. Afew words, however, may be said about the circumstances of its publication. In the expectation that I should find in them materials for an inte resting work, the papers from which these volumes have been compiled were given to me, some years ago, by the family into Whose hands they passed on Miss Knight's death. On examining them, I found that they consisted of a considerable number of journal-books, the dates of which covered more than half a century, and an unfinished autobiogra phical memoir, written principally on loose sheets of paper. The latter had obviously been commenced at a very late period of life, and had been inter rupted by death. The Journals, however, supplied all that was needed to complete the Memoir to the very end of the writer's life. Indeed, the conv tinuous Memoir had been written from the Diaries. 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.