‘My dear Mr. Rogers,—I send you a small print of myself, which I hope you will do me the favor to accept—I feel assured you will consider it a pardonable vanity that I should desire to be occasionally recalled to the recollections of one whose conversation and kindness has left an impression on my memory too strong to require any aid from the engraver.
‘In a new and poor country like my native land, we have no present and no past. We indulge in the visions of the future, but these pass away with youth—and are seldom realised.
‘London always sends me home loaded with “The Pleasures of Memory.” During this, as well as my last visit to England, the most prominent recollections will be
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