Excerpt from Edward Rowland Sill: His Life and Work My obligations, therefore, are many and serious. My most grateful thanks are due to Mrs. Sill, not only for materials, but also for wise counsel and cooperation. To Sill's class mates at Yale, Mr. Henry Holt and Franklin B. Dexter, as also to Miss Millicent W. Shinn, of California, I acknowledge a debt of grati tude. Among many others to whom I am beholden for letters, recollections, and aid are Miss Heloise E. Hersey, Mr. Howells, and Pro fessor Royce, and, to add those who are no longer living, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Daniel C. Gilman, and Ralph 0. Williams, Yale, '61. 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.