Excerpt from Recollections of Ralph Randolph Wormeley It is your Mother's wish and mine that you and your children should possess a record of the Grandfather for vvhom you are named, and whom you resemble, we are glad to think, in seve ral points of character. For this purpose I have abridged a memoir of him written by your Aunt Elizabeth the year after his death, adding such re collections and observations as your Mother and I have been able to put together. The result is meagre, for there were no letters nor records to help us - nothing but our own recollections; and we were both so young when we lost him that we did not, whilst he lived, understand the fibre and quality of his rare nature; it was not till we came to search for ourselves into the secrets of existence that we learned the. Priceless lesson of his unselfish life. 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.