Wister, M: Worthy Women of Our First Century (Classic Reprin

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These are the principal obstacles we have had to en counter. On the other hand, there has been everywhere the warmest interest in the undertaking - ready sympathy from those to whom we have applied, and help where it was to give. Unfortunately for some of the memoirs, those best qualified to prepare them were too much taken up with other duties to do so. But the ladies to whom application was made exerted themselves to find able substitutes. Many of those who undertook the task have been hampered by ill health or the pressure of other claims, but their researches and inquiries have been as thorough as if they had been writing history. We are particularly indebted to the families of the women chosen as representatives, for their willingness to allow the use of the material they possess and for their active assistance in collecting more. We owe hearty thanks for advice or aid to Colonel T. W.' Higginson, Mrs. Oliver Hubbard, of New York, Mrs. M. P. Cutts, of Brattleboro', Lloyd P. Smith, Esq, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Catherine Pennington, of New Jersey. In regard to the memoir for Pennsylvania the writer must express her gratitude to the Logan family and connections generally, most especially to Mrs. John Dickinson Logan, who copied from the diary of her husband's grandmother, to which only near relations have access, all the extracts given from it, and pages more not quoted, from which the picture of the heroine's character and life has been completed.

Nevertheless, with all this effort and this encouragement, we have only six sketches to offer as the result. Nor have we in all of these the living personal representation we hoped would be presented in every case: the scantiness of material made that impossible. Should the volume, such as it is, find general favor, it may be the means of obtaining biographies from the remaining States. If suitable ones be sent, as we trust they may, a second volume will be published.

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