Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D., by Orville DeweyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his DaughterAuthor: Orville DeweyEditor: Mary DeweyRelease Date: July 31, 2006 [EBook #18956]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS OF ORVILLE DEWEY ***Produced by Edmund DejowskiAUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF ORVILLEDEWEY, D.D.Edited by his Daughter Mary DeweyINTRODUCTORY.IT is about twenty-five years since, at my earnest desire, my father began to write some of the memories of his own life,of the friends whom he loved, and of the noteworthy people he had known; and it is by the help of these autobiographicalpapers, and of selections from his letters, that I am enabled to attempt a memoir of him. I should like to remind the eldergeneration and inform the younger of some things in the life of a man who was once a foremost figure in the world fromwhich he had been so long withdrawn that his death was hardly felt beyond the circle of his personal friends. It was likethe fall of an aged tree in the vast forests of his native hills, when the deep thunder of the crash is heard afar, and a newopening is made towards heaven for ...