Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0000678532
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 905.36 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Stevenson, R. L. (n.d.). Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger out of all proportion.