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The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking,
himself a Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American
history and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If excuse is
needed it is to be found in the special interest of the career of Washington to
a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations at the present time and in the
urgency with which the editor and publishers declared that such an
interpretation would not be unwelcome to Americans and pressed upon the author
a task for which he doubted his own qualifications. To the editor he owes
thanks for wise criticism. He is also indebted to Mr. Worthington Chauncey
Ford, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a great authority on Washington,
who has kindly read the proofs and given helpful comments. Needless to say the
author alone is responsible for opinions in the book.
University of Toronto, June 16,
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