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Автор Джон Филиппс Марквэнд
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XXXI • A HOUSE IN ORDER 147
THE LATE GEORGE APLEY
A FOREWORD AND APOLOGY
A Necessary Ex-position of
Circumstances Permitting a Certain Incorreci
Liberty in the Penning of
This Memoir
GEORGE WILLIAM APLEY was born in the house of his maternal grandfather, William Leeds Hancockj on the steeper part of Mount Vernon Street, on Beacon Hill, on January 25, 1866. He died in his own house, which overlooks the Charles River Basin and the Esplanade, on the water side of Beacon Street, on December 13, 1933. This was the frame in which his life moved, and the frame which will surround his portrait as a man. He once said of himself: "I am the sort of man I am, because environment prevented my being anything else. "
It is now my task, to which I have agreed under somewhat unusual circumstances, to depict the life of this valued friend of mine through his own writings.
I can think of no more suitable way of beginning than by resorting to an explanation which is, in a measure, personal. It has been my privilege many times in the past to edit the notes and letters of other prominent Bostonians under the advice of the family. In thiscase, as is usual in such matters, the advice of the family stands first. In this case, however, the advice is not usual.
Dear Mr. Willing:—
