ESPECIALLY RICHMOND, IN BY-GONE DAYS WITH A GLANCE AT THE PRESENT: Do Innerarity BEING REMINISCENCES AND LAST WORDS AND Aug 1862 An Old Eitized. BY SAMUEL MORDECAI. "HÆC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT." Second Edition, With many corrections and additions. RICHMOND: WEST & JOHNSTON, PUBLISHERS. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1860, BY SAMUEL MORDECAI, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. C. H. WYNNE, PRINTER, RICHMOND. EXTRACT of a letter from WASHINGTON IRVING to the author, dated Sunny-Side, July 6, 1856. "I had especially intended to thank you for your little volume, for it was particularly acceptable to me. • Richmond in By-Gone Days' was Richmond as I knew it in the days of my youth, nearly fifty years since. Every page of your volume brought up some delightful recollection of scenes and characters long since passed away; for at Richmond, at the time of my visit, there was a rare assemblage of the talent and beauty of Virginia; and the impressions I received then have ever made the Old Dominion' dear to me.'" Letter from Dr. JOHN W. FRANCIS to the author, dated New York, May 13, 1857. "Dear Sir,-Your interesting volume of men and things, (your reminiscences,) came safely to hand. I had already read the work with much gratification. It is such books that help to make up history, when writers like Macaulay take pen in hand. I shall preserve the volume, and I hope to have some notice taken of it. With many, many thanks, &c." From the New York Observer, Nov. 20, 1856. "This volume is full of pleasant reading, even for a stranger, but much more interesting to those who know the Capital of the Old Dominion. It is the work of leisure hours, delightfully spent in gathering up the threads of past days, and preserving the records that would otherwise be left to perish." |