Life of Walter Quintin Gresham - 1832-1895 #223125

The marshalling of the facts has been my part of the work. I have taken the evidence, have sifted it, and have presented it, just as I should prepare a brief for the court. But the facts themselves, and the deductions and conclusions, have come from the unclouded memory and clear mind of my mother, Matilda Gresham, the best informed witness obtainable and, I submit, competent. We have had to take into account the Editors and Censors, and we have bowed to their will and their judgment in some things where perhaps they were right and perhaps they were wrong. It has been hard to convince the Editors and the Censors that the woman was telling the story, and that her own life experiences and environments and prejudices fitted her for the task.