Excerpt from Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G. C. B, Vol. 1 of 2: First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada
During one of those strange and bewildered days following that supreme and solemn hour which closed the earthly life of my husband - days when I tried hard to move forward from the horror of a great darkness into the sad twilight of resigna tion - ou one of those days the necessity forced itself upon me for naming a writer, who, having had a close personal inter course with Sir John, should, aided by the contents of such papers and letters as he had left, be able to give a more intimate and detailed history of his interesting personality than would be possible for any other biographer, however competent and faithful, not possessed of these special advan tages.
Happily my husband anticipated the possibility of this necessity, and, as was his custom in the regulation of my daily life, had given me in a few slight words the direction I should need.
The subject had been brought under his notice, some three or four months before the time of our parting, by two letters addressed to me. Both these letters were from literary persons unknown to us, each offering his services as Sir John's biographer, one of whom was good enough to ask my assist ance in the preparation of his work.
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