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HAROLD 

by Edward Bulwer Lytton 

Dedicatory Epistle 

TO THE RIGHT HON.  C.  T.  D'EYNCOURT, M.P. 

I dedicate to you, my dear friend, a work, principally composed under
your hospitable roof; and to the materials of which your library, rich
in the authorities I most needed, largely contributed. 

The idea of founding an historical romance on an event so important
and so national as the Norman Invasion, I had long entertained, and
the chronicles of that time had long been familiar to me.  But it is