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  Transcriber’s Notes

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  THE AGONY COLUMN
  OF THE “TIMES”
  1800-1870

  _WITH AN INTRODUCTION_

  EDITED BY ALICE CLAY

  [Illustration]

  London
  CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
  1881

  [_All rights reserved_]


PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.




INTRODUCTION.


THE contents of the little volume now presented to the public have been