Author: Mrs. Felton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781331367819

Excerpt from American Life: A Narrative of Two Years' City and Country Residence in the United States IN submitting these few sheets to the public, the authoress Wishes to be considered as presenting a faithful record of her observations, and of events as they occurred Within the limits of her experience, during her continuance in the United States. Whenever she has felt herself called upon to give an opinion, she has endeavoured impartially to comply; and when, in delineating characters, she has been compelled to draw upon fiction for names, in order to avoid inflicting an injury by an unnecessary exposure; it may be concluded with certainty that the names alone are fictitious, and that the individuals represented are correctly de pioted in their proper colours. While employed in preparing this small volume for the press, that opinion, so frequently expressed by the Americans, has often occurred to her: viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.