Excerpt from The Private Letters of Sir Robert Peel The letters included in this volume were preserved, after the death of Sir Robert Peel in 1850, by his widow, Lady Peel. On her death in 1859, they passed into the possession of her second son, Sir Frederick Peel. They remained at his house, Hamp ton Manor, in Warwickshire, until his death in 1906. Subsequently they have been committed to my charge. In publishing them I have had more than one Object in view. First, there is the purely personal con sideration that all the members of so widespread a family should be afforded the opportunity, of which I am sure they will be glad, of reading such intimate domestic records. Then, too, the public at large will surely be pleased to be presented with a picture, rare of its kind, of the inward life of a statesman hitherto only placed before them in his official capa city. 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.