Excerpt from Count Cavour and Madame De Circourt: Some Unpublished CorrespondenceAt her death she bequeathed to me the letters which Count Cavour had written to her during a period of twenty-five years. Unfortunately, they are not many. Reckoning the six addressed to Count Adolphe de Circourt, which formed part of the legacy, and in cluding a note two lines long, the little collection contains only thirty-seven items. They are all auto graph, written in Cavour's delicate little round char acters - extremely neat and free from erasures, but curiously enough only six have a complete date, while seventeen are undated.1 They are written in French, for though Mme de Circourt knew something of Italian, she was not accustomed to read or write it. Such are the letters which I now publish, thirty years after the death of her to whom they were addressed. Mme de Circourt was wont to call this little collection her treasure, and indeed its publication will add fresh wealth to that unequalled treasury formed by the works of the greatest statesmen of modern Italy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.