Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lady Dorothy Nevill Be this as it may, the name of Dorothy certainly brought good luck to my mother who cherished the cult of her beautiful ancestress all through the long and happy life which, four years before the death of George IV, began at No. II Berkeley Square - the eighteenth - century mansion in which had lived her kinsman, Horace Walpole. 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.