My Miscellanies Vol 1 & 2

Excerpt: "My object in writing most of these papers—especially those collected under the general heads of ''Sketches of Character'' and ''Social Grievances''—was to present what I had observed and what I had thought, in the lightest and the least pretentious form; to address the public (if I could) with something vi of the ease of letter writing, and something of the familiarity of friendly talk. ...