Excerpt from Dolores, a Tale of Disappointment and Distress: Compiled, Arranged and Edited From the Journal, Letters and Other Mss; Of Roland Verson, Esq.; And From Contributions by and Conversations With the Vernon Family, of Rushbrook, in Carolina But to my general readers, I have some thing to premise because I think they are entitled to an explanation, and I feel that I have a perfect right to offer one. It is this: When my friend Mrs. Alice Vernon brought me the manuscripts which I have worked up into a connected narra tive, with the request that I would edit them for publication, I appreciated my nu worthiness for the labor, but such were my obligations to her that I could claim no right to give her a flat refusal. So I con sented to consider the matter. 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.