Letters from Illinois / By Morris Birkbeck.

  • Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825.
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters from Illinois / By Morris Birkbeck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Most of these Letters were written to my intimate friends ; others are in reply to ap- plications made to me by entire strangers, for advice or information, some directing their inquiries to one point, and some to another. In answering, I generally kept pretty much to the tenor of the questions, as there would have been no end of the labour of communicating to every one, se- parately, information on every topic; yet, to some or other of my correspondents, I have had occasion to touch on most sub- jects interesting to an emigrant.