In his forward, Robert Lawson explains that the story told in this book was curiously found in a small room, eighteen inches square.  It was found in “a manuscript book, the leaves of which, about the size of postage stamps, were covered with minute writing.”  Not only was this manuscript proven authentic, but, in fact, the “officials of the National Museum of Natural History,” stated “that, incredible as it might seem, there could be no possible doubt that the handwriting was that of — a mouse!”  This mouse was named Amos, inseparable friend and confidant to none other than Benjamin Franklin.