Excerpt from Sketches Abroad: With Pen and Pencil
I would say to the gentle reader that the contents of this rather consumptive little vol ume were not intended, originally, for the public eye, but for the eye domestic; being extracts from familiar letters written from abroad to my family at home, and for their especial pleasure and benefit. At the suggestion of a friend, I was induced to put them into type and use them as a thread whereon to hang the illustra tions, the originals of which were, for the most part, drawn from railroad cars, the coupe’ of a diligence, the back of a mule, or from the deck of a steamer. The reader will take them for what they are worth.
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