Excerpt from A Memoir of George Palmer Putnam: Together With a Record of the Publishing House Founded by Him The work itself ought, of course, to have been undertaken many years earlier. It has been delayed owing to my own rather absorb ing responsibilities, business and personal, and has also been not a little hampered by the limitations of restricted eyesight and of adisabled writing arm. Its preparation has gone on with various interruptions during the past five years. By 189 5, however, nearly a quarter of a century after my father's death, his own friends and correspondents had, of course, in large part passed away, and it was no longer practicable to secure from them transcripts of his own letters, although some such letters are still being sought for. My father was a good correspondent. He wrote easily, with a really beautiful script, and he had an excellent command of language. 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.