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California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (April, May, June, 1877)
California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (April, May, June, 1877)
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California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (April, May, June, 1877) By Mrs. Frank Leslie. Illustrated. Written in 1877 and published in New York. (354 pages) The illustrations from this book are available for viewing and download at www.digitaltextpublishing.com
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Prefatory, To The Reader.
...DEAR five hundred friends already mine, and five hundred hundred more, who will, as I fondly dream, become mine through these pages, let me disarm criticism beforehand by assuring you that nobody could point out a fault or a shortcoming in this little book, which I do not know all about and deplore most modestly beforehand. In fact I have my doubts as to calling it a book at all, that title implying a purpose, and deliberateness, and method, which are not of my circle, although regarded by me with respectful admiration. No, let us rather say, that this work of mine is a vehicle, through which, with feminine longing for sympathy, I convey to you my pleasures, annoyances, and experiences in the journey it narrates; or, if you like better, it is a casket, enshrining the memory of many a pleasant hour made bright and indelible by your companionship, your kindness, your attention and hospitality.
...The world is so exigeant, and Time the Effacer is so ruthless, that one loves sometimes to "materialize" those pleasant, or more than pleasant recollections, and so put them not only beyond the risk of loss from one's own memory, but in such form that they can be communicated anew to those who originally shared them.
...Take then my embodied recollections, dear friends, and each of you find among them the one memory distinctively your own, and believe that round that central point all the rest are constellated; and for you, O critics! if you will indeed attempt to bind a butterfly upon the wheel, or anatomize the vapory visions of a woman's memory, remember that in all courtesy you should deal gently and generously with a work proclaiming itself from the outset not so much a book as a long gossipy letter to one's friends, and an amiable attempt to con vey to the rest of the world some of the delight it commemorates, and if you do not find a great deal in it, dear critic, remember that to competently judge a woman's letter or a woman's book, one must have learned to read between the lines and find there the pith and meaning of the whole.
M. FLORENCE LESLIE.
NEW YORK, November, 1877.
Contents
Chapter I. THE BEGINNING. — Chapter II. THE TAGUS AND LAKE ERIE. — Chapter III. HOTEL CARS Versus EMIGRANT TRAINS. — Chapter IV. THE UNMENTIONABLE PLACE. — Chapter V. THE GARDEN OF THE GODS. — Chapter VI. CATHEDRALS, CASTLES, CITIES NOT BUILT BY HANDS. — Chapter VII. SALT LAKE CITY. MRS. AMELIA'S PICTURES. MISS SNOW. — Chapter VIII. A FIRST-CLASS MORMON INTERIOR. — Chapter IX. A LION THAT WE SAW AND A LION THAT WE HEARD. — Chapter X. PHILOSOPHY, SHOSHONES, AND PIUTES — Chapter XI. THE PALACE HOTEL, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE STREETS. — Chapter XII. A PRINCE AND A PALACE. — Chapter XIII. A MEMORABLE VISIT. — Chapter XIV. THE BROKER'S BOARD AND THE CITY PRISON. — Chapter XV. THE WAYS THAT ARE DARK. — Chapter XVI. ACT LIII. — SCENE 102. — AN OPIUM DEN. — Chapter XVII. WORSE THAN DEATH. — Chapter XVIII. SUPPER AT A CELESTIAL RESTAURANT. — Chapter XIX. WOODWARD'S GARDEN AND SEAL ROCKS. — Chapter XX. THE TIES OF CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS. — Chapter XXI. SAN RAFAEL AND MR. COLEMAN'S GROUNDS. — Chapter XXII. THE ROSES OF SANTA ROSA. — Chapter XXIII. THE GEYSERS AND FOSSE OF FOSSEVILLE. — Chapter XXIV. LAST DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO. — Chapter XXV. A LODGE IN A VAST WILDERNESS. — Chapter XXVI. THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. — Chapter XXVII. THE MARIPOSA BIG TREES. — Chapter XXVIII. THE QUEEN OF THE ANGELS. — Chapter XXIX. BALDWIN'S RANCHE OF SANTA ANITA. — Chapter XXX. A VERY OLD WOMAN AND A VERY OLD CHURCH. — Chapter XXXI. SANTA MONICA. — Chapter XXXII. VIRGINIA CITY AND THE BIG BONANZA. — Chapter XXXIII. HOMEWARD BOUND.
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Prefatory, To The Reader.
...DEAR five hundred friends already mine, and five hundred hundred more, who will, as I fondly dream, become mine through these pages, let me disarm criticism beforehand by assuring you that nobody could point out a fault or a shortcoming in this little book, which I do not know all about and deplore most modestly beforehand. In fact I have my doubts as to calling it a book at all, that title implying a purpose, and deliberateness, and method, which are not of my circle, although regarded by me with respectful admiration. No, let us rather say, that this work of mine is a vehicle, through which, with feminine longing for sympathy, I convey to you my pleasures, annoyances, and experiences in the journey it narrates; or, if you like better, it is a casket, enshrining the memory of many a pleasant hour made bright and indelible by your companionship, your kindness, your attention and hospitality.
...The world is so exigeant, and Time the Effacer is so ruthless, that one loves sometimes to "materialize" those pleasant, or more than pleasant recollections, and so put them not only beyond the risk of loss from one's own memory, but in such form that they can be communicated anew to those who originally shared them.
...Take then my embodied recollections, dear friends, and each of you find among them the one memory distinctively your own, and believe that round that central point all the rest are constellated; and for you, O critics! if you will indeed attempt to bind a butterfly upon the wheel, or anatomize the vapory visions of a woman's memory, remember that in all courtesy you should deal gently and generously with a work proclaiming itself from the outset not so much a book as a long gossipy letter to one's friends, and an amiable attempt to con vey to the rest of the world some of the delight it commemorates, and if you do not find a great deal in it, dear critic, remember that to competently judge a woman's letter or a woman's book, one must have learned to read between the lines and find there the pith and meaning of the whole.
M. FLORENCE LESLIE.
NEW YORK, November, 1877.
Contents
Chapter I. THE BEGINNING. — Chapter II. THE TAGUS AND LAKE ERIE. — Chapter III. HOTEL CARS Versus EMIGRANT TRAINS. — Chapter IV. THE UNMENTIONABLE PLACE. — Chapter V. THE GARDEN OF THE GODS. — Chapter VI. CATHEDRALS, CASTLES, CITIES NOT BUILT BY HANDS. — Chapter VII. SALT LAKE CITY. MRS. AMELIA'S PICTURES. MISS SNOW. — Chapter VIII. A FIRST-CLASS MORMON INTERIOR. — Chapter IX. A LION THAT WE SAW AND A LION THAT WE HEARD. — Chapter X. PHILOSOPHY, SHOSHONES, AND PIUTES — Chapter XI. THE PALACE HOTEL, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE STREETS. — Chapter XII. A PRINCE AND A PALACE. — Chapter XIII. A MEMORABLE VISIT. — Chapter XIV. THE BROKER'S BOARD AND THE CITY PRISON. — Chapter XV. THE WAYS THAT ARE DARK. — Chapter XVI. ACT LIII. — SCENE 102. — AN OPIUM DEN. — Chapter XVII. WORSE THAN DEATH. — Chapter XVIII. SUPPER AT A CELESTIAL RESTAURANT. — Chapter XIX. WOODWARD'S GARDEN AND SEAL ROCKS. — Chapter XX. THE TIES OF CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS. — Chapter XXI. SAN RAFAEL AND MR. COLEMAN'S GROUNDS. — Chapter XXII. THE ROSES OF SANTA ROSA. — Chapter XXIII. THE GEYSERS AND FOSSE OF FOSSEVILLE. — Chapter XXIV. LAST DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO. — Chapter XXV. A LODGE IN A VAST WILDERNESS. — Chapter XXVI. THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. — Chapter XXVII. THE MARIPOSA BIG TREES. — Chapter XXVIII. THE QUEEN OF THE ANGELS. — Chapter XXIX. BALDWIN'S RANCHE OF SANTA ANITA. — Chapter XXX. A VERY OLD WOMAN AND A VERY OLD CHURCH. — Chapter XXXI. SANTA MONICA. — Chapter XXXII. VIRGINIA CITY AND THE BIG BONANZA. — Chapter XXXIII. HOMEWARD BOUND.
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