Excerpt from Albion W. TourgeeBoth the demand of prefatory conciseness and the impossibility of expressing in an adequate manner the gratitude I feel toward many persons whose kindly ih terest has been shown me in multitudinous ways, some what disconcert me at this time. To Mrs. Elizabeth S. Warner, now mistress of Thorheim, who placed all of Tourgée's private correspondence, together with masses of unpublished material, at my disposal, and also favored me with a wealth of anecdote and gener ous hospitality, I owe the greatest debt of all. Profes sor Carl Van Doren read my manuscript chapter by chapter as it was written and helped me with much penetrating criticism. My thanks are also due to Pro fessors W. P. Trent, A. H. Thorndike and G. P. Krapp, who gave me the benefit of their ripened schol arship. My colleague, Doctor R. F. Jones, read my manuscript with painstaking care. Professor Archi bald Henderson, of the University of North Carolina, and Professor C. Alphonso Smith, of the United States Naval Academy, put me in touch with various sources of information. Several of Tourgée's classmates of Rochester University and a number of residents in Greensboro, North Carolina, furnished me with much illustrative material. The recent death of Mrs. Tour gée prevents me from showing her my appreciation for the record of her husband's life which she kept for so many years - a record upon which she would have based her own biography of him, had not the memories of their past experiences aroused in her emotions so poignant that she was unable to put her plan into exe cution.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.