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Excerpt from Over Seas in Early Days (1828-29)
Through the courtesy of the editor of the Journal of the Military Service Institution General T. F. Roden bough, U. S. A., I have been able to present to the reader the major part of my father's correspondence from Europe in 1828-29. The package of old papers found in 1905, in the attic of a house on Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C., which was razed for the purpose of extending the grounds, bore the remark, These papers may be of some use. This has induced me 'to publish the whole series in concrete form, but before so doing I must emphasize by repetition the observation on page first paragraph of a letter dated Paris, August 25, 1828, where the writer says: You request me in your last letter to give you a minute account of what trans pires from day to day, but I must consider before I should attempt it; however replete these new scenes may be with interest and novelty for me, a description of them may be quite uninteresting to a reader. I have a great aver sion to journalizing, and will for that reason only give you a cursory account of the most remarkable objects I have visited.
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