An American girl in London . m. BYF. H. TOWNSEND ft J - N E W Y O R K D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1891 Copyright, 1891,Bv D. APPLETOX AXD COMPANY. PREFACEFOR THE OTHER AMERICANS. I have written this account only secondarily and at theinstigation of publishers, for Americans. Primarily, I wroteit for the English people. I composed it in their country;it was suggested by their institutions, and it is addressed tothem. You will see, if you read it, that I had reasons fordoing this. The reasons are in the first chapter, at the verybeginning. As you have not far to look for them, therefore,and as it is
An American girl in London . m. BYF. H. TOWNSEND ft J - N E W Y O R K D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1891 Copyright, 1891,Bv D. APPLETOX AXD COMPANY. PREFACEFOR THE OTHER AMERICANS. I have written this account only secondarily and at theinstigation of publishers, for Americans. Primarily, I wroteit for the English people. I composed it in their country;it was suggested by their institutions, and it is addressed tothem. You will see, if you read it, that I had reasons fordoing this. The reasons are in the first chapter, at the verybeginning. As you have not far to look for them, therefore,and as it is quite unnecessary to print a thing twice in thesame book, I will not go over them again. The object of thispreface is chiefly to draw your attention to the fact that Iam not talking to you, dear compatriot, so that you will un-derstand that there is no personal ground for any annoyanceyou may feel at what I say. Notwithstanding this, one of the Miss AVastgaggles, ofBoston, has already taken the trouble to send me a rathersever
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