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RD 2336

HARV
UNI

LIBRARY
OCT 8 1941

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,

BY J. S. REDFIELD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for 'the Southern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY C. C. SAVAGE,

13 Chambers Street, N. Y.

ΤΟ

Grace greenwood and alice careg.

When this book was finished, I had it in my thought to write for it a prefatory letter, which should convey to you, my friends, an explanation and an idea. I could think of none, in all the world, to whom I might so fitly, and with such proud affection, dedicate this PILGRIMAGE of a striving mind and a great heart, as to you, who are, as ISA was, workers true and noble, diligent seekers of a "better country” that lies even in this toiling world, a country where the Spiritual and Ideal reign and conquer, putting all worldliness and mere ambition under their feet.... But at this moment when such letter

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must be written, if at all, my heart is leaping toward you with a very different form of expression than that I should be compelled to adopt in such a document, and all I can find to say is, a Blessing on your Pilgrimage! which is said with a loving and reverent admiration for the power that has so triumphantly brought you into the harvest-field of the elect of Genius.

CAROLINE CHE EBRO’

CANANDA GUA, 1852.

ISA;

A PILGRIMAGE.

"I can not date the time when love for Weare Dugganne became the passion of my soul. The love has been of gradual growth, and, therefore, is as strong as life. It may have begun in some state of pre-existence; but was first roused, a consciousness, I think, though far from an entire consciousness, on the day when he found me in the den of filth and confusion where my early years were spent. No angel appearing visibly before me, I believe not Gabriel himself could so effect, so astonish me, as did his coming into that place, with his look of purity, and comfort, and confidence. I was startled at the very sight of him out of a miserable existence—set free from an incubus, let loose from it into a clear, bright, and before that to me unimagined, world. Wherefore, then, should I not consider that very

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