Excerpt from A Book of Memories, 1842-1920
I had thought somewhat of it before, but probably it never would have been attempted, but for his let ter. Often, I said of my father, who lived to be eighty nine: With him were buried historical treasures of family and State, which would have been priceless if I had only had the patience to have gotten them from him. Now that I am growing old, perhaps I owe it to my children, my friends and my brethren, to delve into the nearly-forgotten things of the past and hand down to them historical data, they may appreciate. 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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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