FOREWORD Whiting of Arternus Ward, in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for November, 1880, E. S. Nadal, the essayist, expressed the wish that some one would visit the humorist's birthplace at Waterford, Maine, and look into his beginnings, to account for him by a study of the surroundings and his ancestry. I was a boy in the printing-office at Norway, a town adjoining Waterford, and caught the idea. In company with my father, Rev. J. A. Seitz, I drove through a tremendous snowstorm to Waterford, ten miles away, and rediscovered the Browns, to wit: Caroline E. Farrar Brown, his mother; Thaddeus Brown, his uncle; Waldo T. and Daniel Brown, cousins, sons of Thaddeus. Between us, my father and I prepared an article, he doing most of the work, but appending my name to the result, and sent it to Scrihner's. Two rival writers had also grasped the suggestion-C. A. Stephens, a friend and neighbor in Norway, long distinguished as an author of cheerful juvenilia, and another, whose name escapes...

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