This opportunity is taken to express my indebtedness to Miss Hattie B.
Rand for the privilege of using and possessing her father’s private
Diary; and, with her, to Miss Helen L. Webster, Miss Cornelia Horsford,
Mrs. Irene Fitch, Mr. George V. Rand, Rev. Robert Murray, D.D., T. H.
Rand, D.C.L., Rev. E. M. Saunders, D.D., and others, whose sympathy and
encouragement induced me to go on with the task of publication, after
most of the work had been done and the first project abandoned.