The world expects, and almost demands, that some men write their autobiography. It ridicules the vanity and impertinence of other men who put the recollections of their own lives into print. Hundreds of people have told me that I ought to-write a record bf my own life. But, very likely, thousands will wonder that I have had the assurance to write it, or could imagine that anybody really cared to have it written. A nd, doubtless, to many people, my record will be worthless ;yet I hope others will find something in it they may deem not altogether without value. Having come to the resolution to write my own memoirs, I see no necessity for confining myself to the drawing out of a lean outline. If the account of a mans life be worth writing at all, it must be worth writing with fair completeness. So I shall fill up the outline as fully as I judge it wise to fill it up.
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