Note 886 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
Reading edition
[Mr. Geo. R. Gilmer, in an address in 1851 on the Literary Progress of Georgia, said of McCall’s history, “A few actors in the scenes described read it on its first appearance; it was then laid upon the shelf, seldom to be taken from it. Ten years afterwards Bevan collected materials for the purpose of improving what McCall had executed indifferently. He received so little sympathy or aid in his undertaking that he never completed it.”—Ed.]