Excerpt from James Lorimer Graham, Jr.: January 17th, 1894 Lorrie was educated in New York until he was about sixteen, and was then sent to Amiens, France, to complete his education. There he lived for some years with a cousin who had married a French gentleman of position and prominence, pursuing his studies; and afterwards spent some time in Paris in completing his education. During his sojourn abroad he became a proficient French scholar, and retained all his life his fluency and perfect accent, so rare to any foreigner, and was often mistaken for a Frenchman. His features were of the purest Latin type, the nose exquisitely modelled, and the lines of the mouth almost perfect. He was in fact an "intellectually" handsome man, rather poetic in appearance, of good height and figure, and most charming manners. He early evinced the literary and artistic tastes which controlled and governed his whole career, loving the literature and art of France and England as well as of his own country with all the ardor of a young enthusiast - an enthusiasm very lacking in our own times. He soon opened a correspondence with the great men of that day who had attracted him so strongly; and the kindly answers he received resulted in a large and exceptionally remarkable collection of autograph letters, which he had bound and inlaid in several large and beautiful volumes. 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.