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Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
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Preface
Vol. I Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Vol. II Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Vol. III Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
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“My dear Sir,

“I have been waiting for a conveyance to London
206FIFTY YEARS’ RECOLLECTIONS,  
to thank you for ‘Andrews’ Travels,’ which have at length come safely to hand, spite of your apprehensions that they might have been mislaid, and I find them to contain a good deal of curious matter and information which to me was new.*

“You came down last month to take a shower-bath or two, if you want ‘warm’ baths now is your time; and you will have nothing to pay, as the air will confer them gratuitously.

“Should any of the articles I gave you for the magazine prove objectionable you can return them when any parcel is coming from Burlington Street. They are mere hors-d’æuvres as the French cartes say, and do not deserve to be treated with any ceremony.

“Yours very truly,
“Horatio Smith.”

“P.S. Will you tell Colburn, when you see him, that ‘Zillah’ is the most appropriate name he could choose for my novel. I find that lady was the mother of Tubal Cain, the first of the Smiths, and of course the founder of my family; perhaps the circumstance was in Mr. ——’s eye when he pitched upon Zillah!”