My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is
such that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of
explanation as to how they came into my possession. Withal, my
knowledge of him is so meager that I should rather not undertake to
say if he were himself persuaded of the truth of what he relates;
certainly such inquiries as I have thought it worth while to set
about have not in every instance tended to confirmation of the
statements made. Yet his style, for the most part devoid alike of
artifice and art, almost baldly simple and direct, seems hardly
compatible with the disingenuousness of a merely literary
intention; one would call it the manner of one more concerned for
the fruits of research than for the flowers of expression. In
transcribing his notes and fortifying their claim to attention by
giving them something of an orderly arrangement, I have
conscientiously refrained from embellishing them with such small
ornaments of diction as I may have felt myself able to bestow,
which would not only have been impertinent, even if pleasing, but
would have given me a somewhat closer relation to the work than I
should care to have and to avow. - A. B.
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