This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... were present at an auction and witnessed the selling of Negroes upon the block, a scene which the events of the next few years rendered thereafter forever impossible of repetition. At about this date, a letter was written by him to a lady, whom, as it appears, he had not met since the time when, in his early youth, he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... were present at an auction and witnessed the selling of Negroes upon the block, a scene which the events of the next few years rendered thereafter forever impossible of repetition. At about this date, a letter was written by him to a lady, whom, as it appears, he had not met since the time when, in his early youth, he lived in Providence. As in it, in answer to a request of his correspondent, he gives some account of his life, it is interesting as the only approach to autobiography which has been found. It is as follows: New York, April 30th, 1860. The receipt of your most welcome and kind letter of the 23d inst. has given me great pleasure. That brief acquaintance of our early years to which you so kindly allude, I have always considered one of the brightest periods of my life; but I have often feared that I was not only quite lost to your view, but also entirely forgotten. It was not until I met your brother, a few years since, at an anniversary of the American Bible Society, that I learned anything definite in regard to you, except that I had heard that you were pleasantly settled in married life. About two years since, while on a visit to Boston, I drove out to Cambridge, and called upon your brother, with the hope that I might possibly meet you there. He gave me your address, and. although I have occasionally sent you Sabbath documents, I have not been certain until the receipt of your letter that they reached you. I will now answer your kind inquiries in regard to my life and family since we closed that brief but delightful acquaintance thirty-five years ago, when we "said good-bye in Providence." Soon after I left Providence, I came to this city and joined a relative in a wholesale book and paper store, which was continued with success for...
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