Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale, Vol. 1
The amount of material placed in my bands was very great. There were thousands of letters, many diaries and day-books covering almost the whole of my father's life, a great number of sermons as well as lectures and addresses, beside note-books, scrap books, common-place books, sketch-books, and other such material. His printed writings, also, were voluminous and had never been entirely collected, nor even completely catalogued. It was not pos sible for me to examine and digest all this material in the way I should have liked, nor could I, even, select all that I could have wished. I have tried.
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