The Life and Times of Anne Royall (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Anne RoyallLed by psychological, rather than by historical, interest, I began a search for Mrs. Royall's maiden name and other primary biographical facts concern ing her which had long been missing. Searching for those facts has been like hunting for a dozen needles, each hidden in a different haystack. Ancient re cords of the District of Columbia, of five states, and of more than a score of cities have been scanned care fully, many libraries and bookshops have been ran sacked, correspondence has been carried on with sec retaries of Masonic lodges and with local historians in many different sections of the United States, the War Department, the Pension Office, the State De partment and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have yielded help, annals of the American Revolution have been studied, every line of Mrs. Royall's voluminous writings has been read, and oral tradition has been sifted with care. My research has covered several years. The result is the discovery of biographical material which seems to show that Mrs. Royall was really far less black than she has been painted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.