READER, you have here an honest site; it does from the ouset warn you that, by creating it, I have intended it to be for nothing other than private use: I have no consideration at all for how it may be of service to you or how I might profit by it. I have no power to come up with such a design. I have dedicated this site to my people and my friends so that, having lost me, they may recover some traits of me and my nature, and preserve more whole, and more life-like knowledge they had of me. Had my intention been to advance myself, I should surely have made it better than this; I desire here to be viewed as I appear in my own genuine, simple and ordinary manner: because it is myself that I paint. So, reader, I am the matter of this site: there’s no reason that you should spend your free time on such a frivolous and vain subject. So, farewell.

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