Excerpt from Father Maturin: A Memoir, With Selected Letters
The arrangement of the letters that form the second part of this volume has been largely dictated by circumstance. Father Maturin left very few letters of biographical interest. Those which he did leave have been made use of in the Memoir. On the other hand, the number of letters of counsel and spiritual help is comparatively large, and of these the greater part of this volume consists. The owners of many of these letters did not wish their names to be mentioned, and it has seemed best on the whole to publish the entire selection without giving the names of any of Father Maturin"s correspondents. It was impossible to follow any exact chronological order in the arrangement of the letters. It would have been a real loss in grouping them to have sacrificed sequence in subject to sequence in date. The only exception made has been in the case of the letters to any one person which form a series, and these have been placed in the order in which they were written.
It must be remembered in reading these letters that they are personal letters, many of them written to intimate friends, often hastily, amid press of work. A man"s letters are only his own to alter and correct - this work cannot be done by an editor.
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