Excerpt from Henry Scott Holland: Memoir and Letters He was fond of keeping letters and his friends treasured his letters to them. It has been a fine experience, to trace through a thousand or more letters the chief events of his life, and to watch the development of his gifts. I was not in the nearer circle of his friends and disciples. Many of them have written of him, with admirable knowledge and insight it is open to everybody, to see what they say of him and this memoir is hardly more than a record of episodes and a collection of letters. He lived in the lives of his friends, and of his legions of hearers and readers, delighting and inspiring them: he was like sunshine filling a room and bringing out every spark of colour latent in it. I could not describe the look of his face, the brightness of his wit, and the magic that he exercised over non-productive talk, as a conjurer gets flowers out of an empty hat. Nor could I appraise his theological and political teaching. Least of all could I describe him in his prayers and retreats and communions: yet in them - above all, in his communions, from the day of his confirmation at Eton to the day of his death in Oxford - is the key to him as he showed himself to the men and women of his time. 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.