Excerpt from Sir Joshua Fitch: An Account of His Life and Work
When, at Lady Fitch"s request, I undertook the task of preparing a brief memoir of her husband, I knew well the difficulties that stood in the way of its successful accomplishment. I cannot hope that I have overcome those difficulties, but at least I have attempted to keep them in mind throughout. The plan of this brief sketch of a strenuous character and a laborious life is the result of that attempt. I have tried to make a too little considered, but highly important, fragment of our national history tell the story of a man who was himself a chief part of it.
It is to Sir Joshua Fitch himself that I owe it if I have at all succeeded in conveying what he was and what he did. Though I had long known him through his writings, it was only during the last three years of his life that I knew him personally. During those years we met frequently, and I learned to know and to value his controlled enthusiasm, his moderating temper, his shrewd and penetrating judgment. I have not read for the purposes of this memoir a single line of a report or an article written by him without feeling in it and through it the spirit of the man I knew and honoured.
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