Nuts for Future Historians to Crack (Esprios Classics)

For some years I had been engaged in collecting material for a life of my great grandfather the Rev. William Smith D. D. Provost of the University of Pennsylvania and in doing so I read all the Bibliographical and Historical works which I thought could in any way make mention of him. In no case did I find anything said against his character as a man until I read Wm. B. Reed's Life of his grandfather Gen. Joseph Reed. His remarks were uncalled for and ungentlemanly; what they were amount to nothing as they were untrue; and therefore not worth repeating. My first idea was to speak of Gen. Joseph Reed in the same manner though with more truth; but finding the truth had been suppressed and that to publish all I could wish in regard to Reed would take up too much room in my work and be departing from my original design I therefore concluded to publish all the historical facts in regard to Reed in a small volume by itself and to publish such an edition that it could not be bought up and destroyed.Horace W. Smith