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Once in a written document the general did me the honor to appoint me his literary executor, but as he is young, and as healthy as myself, it never may be my lot to perform such an unwelcome duty. And to-day all one can write of him is what the world can read in "Under Fourteen Flags," and some of the "foot-notes to history" which I have copied from his scrap-book.
The editor of the magazine objected to sundry paragraphs in the manuscript, and these were cancelled with the consent of the author, who himself supplied all the foot-notes that accompanied the article when it was published. It has seemed best to retain them in the present reproduction.
Since you are to share with me such foot-notes as may be made on the pages of my life during this summer's wanderings, I should not be quite silent as to this magnificent prologue to the, as yet, unknown drama. Yet I, like others, have little to say where the spectacle is, for once, great enough to fill the whole life, and supersede thought, giving us only its own presence.
An astonishment to all mankind; which gave rise to endless misconceptions of Friedrich: but which, supporting itself on proofs, on punctually excerpted foot-notes, is intrinsically a modest, quiet Piece; and, what is singular in Manifestoes, has nothing, or almost nothing, in it that is not, so far as it goes, a perfect statement of the fact. 'Auxiliary troops, that is our essential character.
The sheer lyric quality of this book has remained unsurpassed by this author. Indeed it is rare in all literature. The man writes with invention, with sap, with urge. Our eyes are not clogged with foot-notes and references.
His arguments were really hasty foot-notes to his convictions; if each one had separately been proved wrong, that would have had no influence on the point of view he had reached. He forgot that this very landscape that was seeming incomparable England herself had yesterday appeared complacent and monotonous.
As a mere collection of facts upon the whole colonial history of Virginia Campbell's work is the most useful. Dr. Brown's other works, The First Republic in America , and English Politics in America make excellent companion pieces to the Genesis, though the author has made a great mistake in not supporting his text with foot-notes and references.
When original documents or extracts from them tell a clear and reasonably concise story, I sometimes insert them bodily in the text. In other cases I give my own version of the facts which they set forth, but give the full text in foot-notes. In nearly all instances references are given to sources of documentary information.
To further illustrate how fair-minded I am in these matters, I may say I have patiently read all the war articles written by both sides, and I have not tried to dodge the foot-notes or the marginal references, or the war maps or the memoranda.
One or two chapters are considered somewhat broad, I hear; but the whole impression is precisely what I wished. Osgood calls it, and not serve as foot-notes to my Readers. I shall go home soon, and I trust by way of Boston. If so, I shall of course see you and yours, I must now say. Will you present my warmest regards and pleasantest recollections to your wife, and believe still in your friend
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