Dedication
To
PROFESSOR CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND
of
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Dear Copey:
I remember you thought it strange that my first trip abroad didn’t make me want to write about what I saw there. But since then I have visited a country which stimulated me to express it in words. And as I wrote these impressions of Mexico I couldn’t help but think that I never would have seen what I did see had it not been for your teaching me.
I can only add my word to what so many who are writing already have told you: That to listen to you is to learn how to see the hidden beauty of the visible world; that to be your friend is to try to be intellectually honest.
So I dedicate this book to you with the understanding that you shall take as your own the parts that please you, and forgive me the rest.
As ever, Jack.
New York, July 3, 1914.