Excerpt from Life of William Rollinson Whittingham, Vol. 1 of 2: Fourth Bishop of Maryland When Mrs. Whittingham and her children asked me to write the Life of the late Bishop of Maryland, I frankly confessed that the thought of connecting my name with that of one so loved and revered was a temptation to undertake what, I feared, I was not fitted for. As a protection to them and to myself, I required that their selection of a biographer should be approved by cer tain friends of the family, and by others prominent in the Church. This approval was obtained; and what is at last finished was begun. The length of time those interested have been kept wait ing, is due in part to deficiencies recognized from the first but not to these only. If the iron be blunt, then must he put to more strength. Much labor has been spent to no purpose - no sign of which is seen. But the desire to be accurate, one attainable merit, has also cost much. 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.