Over sixteen years the poet and editor of the New York Evening Post sent home these letters from wherever he travelled. Florence, Venice and the Tyrol, Belgium and Holland sit beside an excursion to the Rock River prairies of Illinois, examples of lynch law, Richmond, a corn-shucking in South Carolina, and Cuba, each sketched in a plain, observant prose.
A view of the 1830s and 1840s from one of America’s first celebrated poets, period attitudes included. Download the free EPUB.