Dedication
To thee, my darling Hattie, I dedicate the Sea-Flower would that this casket contained for such as thou, a purer gem.
Preface
In writing the following pages the author has spent pleasant hours, which perhaps might have been less profitably employed: if anything of interest be found among them, it is well,—and, should any be led to take up their Cross in meekness and humility, searching out the path that leads the wanderer home, it is indeed well.