Excerpt from The Prussian Campaign of 1758: Reprinted From the American Historical Review for October, 1897, and January, 1898
[The following pages contain the last historical work of the late Herbert Tuttle, Professor of Modern European History in Cornell University. Shortly after his untimely death, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. published what was thought to be all that the deceased historian had completed of his History of Prussia. It seems, however, that this was not the case. When Professor Tuttle left Ithaca for the last time for Clifton Springs, in 1894, he packed up with several books the manuscript on which he had last been working, in the hope that his health would permit him to continue his labors. Mrs. Tuttle was unaware of this and entrusted to the publishers only the completed chapters that appeared in book form with a sympathetic memoir by Professor Herbert B. Adams. The chapter now presented to the readers of the American Historical Review, and presenting an account of the campaign of 1758, extending to October, bears characteristic marks of the ripe knowledge and scholarly workmanship which made Professor Tuttle"s History of Prussia the best authority in the English language upon the subject. Special mention should be made of the care he displayed in examining the primary sources of the period. He went to the expense of having copied for him in London much of the correspondence of the Duke of Newcastle, which is preserved in the British Museum and the importance of which has only recently been made known to students of the history of the eighteenth century. The love of truth, grasp of the period and minute care to assure correctness of detail, which distinguished all the work of the historian of Prussia, show no diminution in the last paragraphs that came from his hand. The editors of the American Historical Review hereby express their gratitude to Mrs. Mary McArthur Tuttle for her kindness in permitting them to publish in its pages the last contribution to history made by her accomplished husband.]
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