Excerpt from George Gilfillan: Anecdotes and ReminiscencesTalking with so many of his friends, and visiting so many of his people, whose delight it was to speak of him, to recall his words and ways, and to retail the anecdotes that were currentabout him (some of them difficult to verify, but all of them characteristic of the man), my previous acquaintance with Gilfillan, mostly at a distance, seemed to deepen into intimacy, and his strong and vigorous personality became more and more distinct.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.