Hartford Sept.  30 1889 

(Signed) Harriet Beecher Stowe] 

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT.  

I desire to express my thanks here to Harper & Brothers, of New York,
for permission to use letters already published in the "Autobiography
and Correspondence of Lyman Beecher." I have availed myself freely of
this permission in chapters i.  and iii.  In chapter xx.  I have given
letters already published in the "Life of George Eliot," by Mr.  Cross;
but in every instance I have copied from the original MSS.  and not
from the published work.  In conclusion, I desire to express my
indebtedness to Mr.  Kirk Munroe, who has been my co-laborer in the
work of compilation. 

CHARLES E.  STOWE. 

HARTFORD, _September_ 30, 1889.