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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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“It is one of my greatest miseries that I cannot, in any way, control the waywardness of fortune, which is every day forcing me to violate the most fixed resolutions, and to perpetuate outrages upon the feelings of those who have been my best friends. A young gentleman of New York, being on the eve of making a tour in Europe, has requested letters to London from me, a request I have hitherto avoided, but in this case, refusal or evasion was impossible. I have ventured to write to you. Mr. Hosack belongs to the best family in this city. His father is a celebrated physician and scholar, president of the Rutger’s College, and a man of great wealth and leading. To have refused, would
236FIFTY YEARS’ RECOLLECTIONS,  
have subjected me to the most fatal suspicions, or have occasioned a breach of intercourse with the family. This young gentleman is amiable, and well-educated. His letters will shew him to be of the greatest respectability. Don’t judge of him (for God’s sake!) by me. Treat him courteously for his sake and your own, and that is the sole respect I ask for my introduction. He is anxious to know the literary men of all parties, Campbell, Rogers, Lockhart, Scott, Moore, Hunt, &c., &c. Of myself I need not say anything, and I ask a similar charity of the rest of the world. God bless you, which is more than he has or ever can do for me. Amongst the settled gloom of my life, there are but one or two bright spots. The most agreeable of these, is that which relates to the earlier part of my intercourse with you.

“Farewell,
“W. G. Graham.”