John Penry: His Life Times and Writings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from John Penry: His Life Times and Writings I have been a long time writing the present volume. The intervening years were not favourable one carried into the quiet of libraries a mind preoccupied with anxieties for one's country; and sometimes a heart rent with sorrow for the young heroes who died to save us from the loathsome serfdom which then threatened us. The confusion of the times often caused interruptions, and more often modified the pace of progress. And the years which have followed the victorious close of the war have not been favourable for the publication of works of the character of this present. But the completion of the volume brings the pleasant task of thanking those, and they are not a few, who have so kindly helped me in my Work. So far back as 1910 I spent the first of several summer vacations at Aberystwyth, that in the National Library of Wales I might forage among the rich collection of early printed Welsh books, the noble gift of Sir John Williams, Bart. The authorities may have forgotten the special kindness they then showed me, though I thankfufly remember it. And the same courtesy has been manifested to me at the Bodleian, the library at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Archbishops' Library at Lambeth, Sion College, and the Congregational Library, London, and at the Record Office. But, as before I had to acknowledge, the greater part of my present work has been done, and could only have been done, at the British Museum, to whose courteous and learned officials, as well as to the intelligent staff of obliging attendants, I am under the greatest obligation. I should like through their chief, Professor A. W. Pollard, c.b., Keeper of Printed Books, to offer my grateful thanks for the accommoda tion granted me in the North Library these many years. 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.