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Transcriber’s note
Obvious word errors have been corrected, but otherwise the originalspelling has generally been retained, even where several differentspellings have been used to refer to the same person. A list ofcorrections can be found after the book.
The printed book contained footnotes and endnotes—these have allbe placed at the end of the ebook.
Table of Contents of the Ebook
Henry S. King & Co., 65, Cornhill
MEMOIRS OF
LEONORA CHRISTINA
DAUGHTER of CHRISTIAN IV. of DENMARK
WRITTEN DURING HER IMPRISONMENT INTHE BLUE TOWER AT COPENHAGEN
1663—1685
Translated by F. E. Bunnètt
LONDON
Henry S. King & Co., 65 Cornhill
1872
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
All rights reserved
PREFACE.
In placing the present translation of Leonora ChristinaUlfeldt’s Memoirs before the English readingpublic, a few words are due from the Publishers, inorder to explain the relation between this edition andthose which have been brought out in Denmark and inGermany.
The original autograph manuscript of LeonoraChristina’s record of her sufferings in her prison,written between the years 1674 and 1685, belongs toher descendant the Austrian Count Joh. Waldstein,and it was discovered only a few years ago. It wasthen, at the desire of Count Waldstein, brought toCopenhagen by the Danish Minister at Vienna, M.