Excerpt from Banquet Given in Honor of Truman P. Handy, May 15, 1882: The Directors of the Merchanto National Bank I may not, my friends, longer detain you from the pleasure of listening to our honored guest. I am sure we can all most heartily unite in the sentiment received by wire, this afternoon, from the eminent historian and statesman, George Bancroft, an early and life-long friend of Mr. Handy. 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.