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LETTERS

OF

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.

NOW

FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS,

COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES,

PRIVATE AS WELL AS PUBLIC,

WITH

AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

BY AGNES STRICKLAND,

AUTHOR OF “THE LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.”

“Whoever corrects the relations of history by the private letters of those who were the actors of the times will learn at every step, as he advances, to distrust the prejudices of others and his own.”

Sir John Dalrymple.

A New Edition.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
MDCCCXLIV.