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The True History of

Joshua Davidson

E. Lynn Linton

THE TRUE HISTORY OF JOSHUA DAVIDSON

1872

PREFACE.

SO many false reports have got about concerning the life and

opinions of JOSHUA DAVIDSON, the Cornish carpenter, that I feel

it to be a duty I owe his memory to tell the truth as I know it; leaving

the world to judge between what I, his nearest friend, knew of him,

and what gossips and his enemies have falsely said. As I am neither

a gentleman nor a scholar I have not pretended to any graces of

style; and I have not tried to make an amusing story. My little book

is more a record of what JOSHUA said and thought than of what

happened to him through others: that is, there is next to no dramatic

interest in it. Neither do I care to give my name. Those who know

JOSHUA will know who I am well enough; and if I have said

anything wrong they can come forward and challenge me. And for

the rest it does not signify. I have written merely for truth’s sake and

love’s; and with this I leave my dear friend’s memory to the verdict

of all honest hearts.

E. Lynn Linton - The True History of Joshua Davidson.pdf