The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1. R. H. Newell
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R. H. Newell
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066142186
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LETTER I.
SHOWING HOW OUR CORRESPONDENT CAME INTO THE WORLD: WITH SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD.
Washington, D.C., March 20th, 1861.
Judge not by appearances, my boy; for appearances are very deceptive, as the old lady cholerically remarked when one, who was really a virgin on to forty, blushingly informed her that she was "just twenty-five this month."
Though you find me in Washington now, I was born of respectable parents, and gave every indication, in my satchel and apron days, of coming to something better than this—much better, my boy.
Slightly northward of the Connecticut river, where a pleasant little conservative village mediates between