TO
JOHN HOPPER.>
These pages are so deeply tinged with romance
and mysticism, that they might seem an unfit offering
to one who has the crowning merit of the 19th
century—that of being a cautious and energetic “business
man.” But in a city of strangers you have been
to me as a brother; most of the scenes mentioned
in these Letters we have visited together; and I
know that the young lawyer, busily making his way
in a crowded world, has not driven from his mind
a love for nature and poetry, or closed his heart
against a most genial sympathy for the whole family
of man. Therefore, this volume is inscribed to you,
with grateful friendship, by
THE AUTHOR.
