Excerpt from Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, Vol. 1 of 2: 1832-1895 The marshalling of the facts has been my part of the work. I have taken the evidence, have sifted it, and have presented it, just as I should prepare a brief for the court. But the facts themselves, and the deductions and conclusions, have come from the unclouded memory and clear mind of my mother, Matilda Gresham, the best informed witness obtainable and, I submit, competent. We have had to take into account the Editors and Censors, and we have bowed to their will and their judgment in some things where perhaps they were right and perhaps they were wrong. It has been hard to convince the Editors and the Censors that the woman was telling the story, and that her own life experiences and environments and prejudices fitted her for the task. 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.