Excerpt from Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, Late of Ballitore, Ireland: Compiled by Their Daughter, Mary Leadbeater; Including a Concise Biographical Sketch, and Some Letters, of Her Grandfather, Abraham Shackleton A considerable number of letters, or extracts from letters, addressed by the late Richard Shackleton to some of his numerous friends, have already been submitted to the public eye, principally collected by his worthy, much-valued contemporary, John Ken dall; by which his talents for epistolary converse have been evinced, in a way that it is hoped will favourably dispose many readers to receive the present volume. 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.