Excerpt from Dona Maria De Zayas Y Sotomayor: A Contribution to the Study of Her Works I welcome this opportunity to express my Sincere gratitude to Professor de Onis, who first interested me in Dofia Maria de Zayas, for his advice, criticism and assistance in the preparation of this study; to Professor H. A. Todd to whom I feel especially indebted for his never-failing sympathetic encouragement, for his many val uable suggestions in connection with the work and for the painstak ing reading and revision of the manuscript; to Professor Raymond Weeks for his friendly interest and helpful ideas throughout my course Of study at Columbia; and, lastly, to my friend Miss Elsa G. Rust, whose confidence in my efforts has always been a source of inspiration. 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.