Excerpt from The Original Letters From India of Mrs. Eliza Fay: With Introduction and Notes It may indeed be wondered how it is that a book so ufien laid under contribution, so full of adventures, contain ing so many clearly cut descriptions of interesting persons and places, has been allowed to fall out of circulation. Well, in the first place, as it has been observed, Calcutta, being a place of frequent partings, is, in consequence, a place of short memories. When Mrs. Fay, in advanced years, re turned to Calcutta, about a year before her death, and set to work to put her letters into print, I suppose thee would have been but few here who would have remem bered her on the occasion of her first visit, and perhaps the Calcutta of Warren Hastings' days had not for the men of that time the glamour which it has for us today. The Execution cut the hook short where Mrs. Fay had left the printing of it; and after copies had been issued to the subscribers, its existence was forgotten until the Rev. 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.