Présentation de l'éditeur
George Berkeley, afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, and Sir John Percival, afterwards Earl of Egmont. The collection of manuscripts from which the correspondence was taken is in possession of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egmont. This collection was originally made by the first Earl of Egmont largely to serve as material for a history of the Percival family, that appeared in 1742 under the title of AG enealogical History of the House of Yvery. Those portions of the collection relating to Berkeley and Percival comprised in this present volume are found in the nine volumes of Letter-books, 1697 1731, the twelve volumes of the Journal of Percival, 1731 1747, and the seven volumes of Original Letters, 1740 1751. The copied letters which passed between Berkeley and Percival from the isth of September, 1709, to the I5th of December, 1730, scattered through the Letter-books, form the bulk of the present volume. The Journal of Percival, which began in 1731, shortly before the time the Letter-books end, yield various memoranda showing the continuance of the friendly relations between them in the later years of their lives. The two letters signed by Berkeley as the Bishop if Cloyne, and the two by Kene Percival, are taken from the Original Letters of the Egmont collection. Some account of the Egmont collection is given in the Appendix to the Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (pp. 232 249), printed in 1879. It contains the dates of the letters, accompanied by various brief extracts from the rnrrp Qnnnrlpnrp in thp. T.
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