Titlepage

Letters
of
Chauncey Wright

with some account of his life

by

JAMES BRADLEY THAYER

Privately Printed

CAMBRIDGE
PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON
1878

Copyright
By James Bradley Thayer
1877

This book has been prepared, and privately printed, for certain friends of Chauncey Wright in this country and in England. In making selections from the letters, I have not considered what might please the indifferent reader, but rather what would interest those who knew Wright, or who had already been drawn to his essays; being, however, not without hope that others into whose hands the book may fall will find here much that will seem worthy of their attention. I wish I might believe that anybody will have as much pleasure or as much benefit in reading the volume as I have had in editing it.

Even in so slight a sketch of life and character as is here undertaken, it has seemed well to omit nothing within my knowledge which might help to a just estimate of the man. The rule for such attempts, whether large or small, is that of the Roman author: “Cum exprimere imaginem consuetudinis atque vitae velimus Epaminondae, nihil videmur debere praetermittere, quod pertineat ad eam declarandam.”

J. B. T.

Cambridge, December 21, 1877.