Excerpt from Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay: Who Died in Charleston, S. C. On the 10th of June, 1811, in the 52d Year of Her Age, With Extracts From Her Diary, Letters, and Other Private Papers The manuscripts which gave rise to this publication were found among the private papers of their author, Martha Laurens Ramsay, after her death, and were unseen by every human eye but her own, previous to that event. The first mention she ever made of them was in the full view of death, and only three days before its fatal stroke. She then designated the drawer in which they were deposited, and at the same time requested, that after they were read they might be kept as a common book of the family, or divided among its members They appeared, on perusal, to be well cal. 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.