Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Matthew Fontaine Maury, by Charles Lee Lewis
By CHARLES LEE LEWIS Associate Professor United States Naval Academy
ILLUSTRATED
1927 THE UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE ANNAPOLIS
Copyright, 1927 The United States Naval Institute Annapolis, Maryland
TO MY WIFE LOUISE QUARLES LEWIS
Richmond, Virginia. October 25, 1927.
It is eminently appropriate that a life of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury should be written in the environment of Annapolis, and by a professor in the United States Naval Academy, and The Maury Memorial Association is deeply appreciative of this splendid tribute to the name and fame of one of America’s greatest naval officers and benefactors.
Mrs. E.E. Moffitt. President, The Maury Association.
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Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. Navy (Retired) Who has written the Foreword of this biography
I believe that the most instructive form of reading is biography. In the story of a man’s life one can see in quick review the struggle that man went through to attain or to fail to attain his heart’s desire.