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The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars

Being the Posthumous Papers of

BRADFORD TORREY DODD
EDITED BY L.P. GRATACAP

BRENTANO'S 1903

PARIS CHICAGO WASHINGTON NEW YORK

PREFACE BY EDITOR.

The extraordinary character of the story here published, which some peculiar circumstances have fortunately, I think, put into my hands, will excite a curiosity as vivid as the incidents of the narratives are themselves astonishing and unprecedented. To satisfy, as far as I can, a few natural inquiries which must be elicited by its publication, I beg to explain how this unusual posthumous paper came into my possession.