MY CONFIDENCES.

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

ADDRESSED TO MY DESCENDANTS.

BY

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON.

Hoc est

Vivere bis, vitá posse priore frui.

Cecy est un livre de bonne foi.

Ce ne sont mes gestes que j'écris; c'est moy.

NEW YORK :

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

153-157 FIFTH AVENUE.

1896.

NOTE BY EDITOR

THIS Volume was written by Mr. Locker at different periods during the last fifteen years of his life, and was in type at the date of his death, which happened at Rowfant on May 30, 1895.

Amongst the short biographical sketches there was included one of the late Lord Tennyson; but Mr. Locker, shortly before his death, gave this sketch to the present Lord, who will include it in the forthcoming biography of his illustrious father.

I have added the Appendices, for, though they relate to Mr. Locker's great-grandfather and grandfather, they describe traits of character as noticeable in Frederick Locker as ever they can have been in John or William.

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL.

LINCOLN'S INN: January 30, 1896.