Excerpt from Janice Meredith, Vol. 1: A Story of the American Revolution My dear George, Into the warp and woof of every book an author weaves much that even the subtlest readers cannot suspect far less discern. To them it is but a cross and pile of threads interlaced to form a pattern which may please or displease their taste. But to the writer every filament has its own association: How each bit of silk or wool fax or tow was laboriously gathered or was blown to him; when each was spun by the wheel of his fancy into yarns; the colour and tint his imagination gave to each skein; aud where each was finally woven into the fabric by the shuttle of his pen. No thread ever quite detaches itself from its growth and spinnings dyeing and weaving and each draws him back to hours and places seemingly unrelated to the work. And so, as I have read the proofs of this book I have found more than once that the pages have faded out of sight and in their stead I have seen Mount Pisgah and the French Broad River or the ramp and terrace of Biltmore House just as I saw them when writing the words which served to recall them to me. With the visions too has come a recurrence to our long talks, our work among the books, our games of chess, our cups of tea, our walks, our rides and our drives. 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.