Excerpt from Two Great Teachers: Johnson's Memoir of Roger Ascham; And Selections From Stanley's Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, of Rugby
The Object of the Narrative has been to state so much as would enable the reader to enter upon the Letters with a correct understanding of their writer in his different periods of life, and his different Spheres of action. In all cases where it was possible, his opinions and plans have been given In his own words, and in no case, whether in speaking Of what he did or intended to do, from mere conjecture of my own or of any one else. Wherever the Narrative has gone into greater detail, as in the chapter on his School Life at Rugby, it has been where the Letters were comparatively Silent, and where details alone would give to those who were most concerned a true representation of his views and actions.
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