It would not be fitting that this memorial edition of Timrod's Poems
should go forth to the world without proper recognition, on the part of
the TIMROD MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, of the relation occupied and the services
rendered to the poet in his lifetime by the late Hon. George S. Bryan,
of Charleston. During the whole of Timrod's career Judge Bryan was
his devoted friend, ever ready to assist him materially, morally,
and in every other respect.

His faith in Timrod's genius never wavered, and but for his early assistance,
sympathy, and encouragement, much of the fruit of that genius
would have been lost or wasted. He helped him in adversity,
cheered him in his hours of anxiety and despondency, and from first to last,
throughout the literary and spiritual history of the poet, he did more
than any other friend to keep alive in his heart the steadfast flame of faith
in his poetic destiny; Judge Bryan's name must always be inseparably connected
with Henry Timrod's in the literary annals of South Carolina.

January, 1899.





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Poems of Henry Timrod
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