Excerpt from Memorials of the Late Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A: Sometime Vicar of Morwenstow, in the Diocese of Exeter Mos'f conscious am I that I have but the slenderest claims to put together such brief Memorials of a respected and venerated friend as were either in my own possession, or have been kindly supplied by his various relations, in the pages which follow. Had the latest event of Mr. Hawker' 8 life not been commented on in some of the Radical newspapers with a bitterness, a violence of words, and a literary rudeness happily not often experienced, I should probably not have planned this volume, - the expansion of a slight Memoir from my pen, which appeared in the Morning Post of September 8, 1875. 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.