"Lora Cases's REMINISCENCES were first published in the Hudson Independent, a weekly newspaper, in the year of his death, 1897. For the purposes of republication, nineteen newspaper articles were assembled and compared with a manuscript copy owned by Lora Case's grandson, Julian Wright Scott (1878-1970). The origin of this manuscript cannot be established. It is not in Case's handwriting, but it is evidently the copy which was given to the Independent for publication, and, although it does not cover all the articles, it has proved most helpful in clearing up some of the mysteries and inaccuracies which appeared in newsprint." (from: Hudson of Long Ago, published by the Hudson Society in 1963, p. 5).