OF A LIFETIME, OR MEN AND THINGS I HAVE SEEN: IN A SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS TO A FRIEND, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, ANECDOTICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE. BY S. G. GOODRICH. VOL. I. NEW YORK AND AUBURN: MILLER, ORTON AND MULLIGAN. M DCCC LVI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, BY S. G. GOODRICH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. R. C. VALENTINE, STEREOTYPER AND ELECTROTY PIST, 17 Dutch-st., cor. Fulton, NEW YORK. C. A. ALVORD, PRINTER, PREFATORY NOTE. THE first Letter in the ensuing pages will inform the reader as to the origin of these volumes, and the leading ideas of the author in writing them. It is necessary to state, however, that although the work was begun two years since as indicated by the date of the first of these Letters, and while the author was residing abroad-a considerable portion of it has been written within the last year, and since his return to America. This statement is necessary, in order to explain several passages which will be found scattered through its pages. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1856. ENGRAVINGS. VOL. I. PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.. .Frontispiece From the Medallion presented to him by the American citizens in Paris, -on steel, engraved by Ritchie. HOW ARE YOU, PRIEST? HOW ARE YOU, DEMOCRAT?. 130 BRAINARD WRITING "Fall of NIAGARA" SIR WALTER SCOTT, CLERK OF THE COURT OF SESSIONS.. EDINBURGH.. 148 ... 176 . 180 |