Write a letter to your friend describing how you have enjoyed excurison with your school. Points to be guided: Place of excurison, how you reached there,where to live?,chief attraction, behaviour of people, reasons of liking excurison.
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THE MEMOIRS
OF THE
CELEBRATED AND BEAUTIFUL
MRS. ANJv""c ARSON.
DAUGHTER OF AN OFFICER OF THE U. S. NAVY,
AND WIFE OF ANOTHER,
WHOSE LIFE TERMINATED IN THE
PHILADELPHIA PRISON.
SECOND EDITION,
REVISED, ENLARGED, AND CONTINUED TILL HER DEATH,
BY MRS. M. CLARKE,
Authoress of the Fair American, Life of Thomas L. Hamblin,
Edwin Forrest, &c. &c.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
PHILADELPHIA, 1838.
NEW-YORK:
Sold at No. Greenwich st. andN. E. corner of Nassau and
Greenwich sts.— Wholesale and Retail.
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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1838,
by M. Clarke, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
THE AUTHORESS' ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC,
On the issuing of the first edition of the following work, I antici-
pated receiving my proportion of the pecuniary part resulting from
the sale, which was rapid — for near two weeks, forty and fifty copies
were sold every day — therefore, it was evident a second edition was
requisite to meet the public demands — but the publisher for reasons
best known to himself, absolutely declined any further interest in the
affair, and Mrs. Carson's conduct, after the book had succeeded, fully
justified him with the respectable portion of society; he had served
her from feelings that did honour to his heart. She abused his phi-
lanthropy, by turning her money to the basest purposes — got into
prison once more, where she died; and so powerful was the popular
prejudice predominating against her, that I could never induce any
respectable bookseller to publish a second edition for me.
I am, thank Mis-Fortune, no favourite with Dame Fortune, who
has set her great wheel firmly on my head — intending, I suppose, to
hold me in, if not absolute poverty, humble obscurity — well, thought
I, be it so, I have still the power, as Burns says,
To laugh and sing,
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