Robert Morris: Patriot and Financier (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Robert Morris: Patriot and Financier Tins biography is founded for the most part upon the valuable Robert Morris papers, which were recently ao quired by the Library of Congress from the General John Meredith Read estate, and which now repose in the Division of Manuscripts of that library. While other material in Philadelphia and elsewhere has not been neg lected, the diaries and letter-books in their old leathern covers at Washington, to which students were so long denied access, must always be the principal source of our information concerning the life of this neglected patriot whose services to the nation were so eminent. Robert Morris has had almost no other biographer than Profes sor Sumner, and his work, to his own regret, was perforce compiled without consultation with General Read's papers, although the attempt was made to secure the latter's con sent to their use in that behalf. 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.