Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Burgomaster's Wife: A Romance
Why I should dedicate to you, the only sister of my dead father, a book and this book, of all others, needs no words of explanation from me to you. From my earliest recollection you have been a dear and true friend to me, and you surely have not for gotten how, as your guest seventeen years ago, I was busily employed in getting together the material that forms the basis of The Burgomaster's Wife. You took a friendly interest in many an item that seemed to me worthy of notice, curious, or amusing, and when the demands of a serious profession hin dered me from pursuing in the old way the pleasant study of the history of Holland, the home of my mother, you never wearied in urging me to return to the unused material that had formerly aroused your interest.
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