Excerpt from Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, Including Her Private Correspondence With Charles the First: Collected From the Public Archives and Private Libraries of France and England The publication of the following series Of letters of one Of our most talented and unfortunate English Queens is the result, not Of any preconcerted design thus to illustrate her changeful personal history, but of accidental circumstances which threw into my way several collections of her letters, the pos session Of which suggested the idea of gathering together such others as I could find, and publishing them in a connected series. 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.

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