ADVERTISEMENT. SOME portions of the contents of these Volumes appeared in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, in the form of letters from the United States, in the course of the years 1863-4, and are now reprinted by permission of the proprietors. The remainder of the work is from the Notes and the Diary which I kept during a (to me) very eventful year. 64, GUILFORD STREET, RUSSELL SQUARE, January, 1865. G. A. S. |