Author:
Boyd Alexander
Report:
2
Page:
11
Year:
1975
Subject Matter:
Travellers
Excerpt:
My main purpose is to quote as much as possible from Marialva's 41 unpublished letters in Portuguese to Beckford, in order to show the Marquis' charming and honourable character; the nature of his unusual friendship for Beckford, and how it gave this strange Englishman who was under a cloud the friendship and esteem of the Prince Regent of Portugal (later King João VI); and the pain it caused Marialva - which sooner or later every devoted friend of Beckford suffered.
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