Excerpt from The Early Days of Thomas Whittemore: An Autobiography; Extending From A. D. 1800 to A. D. 1825 For these purposes, and with these intents, the pages before me had been written. Occasionally, as I had clerical brethren at my house, certain parts of the work had been read, in answer to questions, or as illustrations of points in my past history. For instance, if a brother asked me what led me to contract the habit of preaching without notes, and whether it had been a very difficult thing for me to accomplish, it would have been natural to take him to my library, show him the bulky volume of manu script, and read certain passages therefrom. Then would come the question, What is all this for P What are you going to' do with this book? My answer was, I am going to do nothing with it. I shall leave it here in my library when I die. It is for my family. Then, perhaps, would come suggestions as to its publication, to which I generally replied, That I had not written it with such a purpose; and thus the conversation would end. 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.