High Life in New York / A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut
Transcibers note:
Mostly, the original text has been left alone complete with misspellings, inconsistencies, etc. as these are part of the charm of the book. Also, inconsistent hyphenation and paragraphs that end in commas have also been left as per the original.
Minor punctuation and apparent printing errors have been corrected without note.
BY JONATHAN SLICK, ESQ., OF WEATHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT.
A SERIES OF LETTERS TO MR. ZEPHARIAH SLICK, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND DEACON OF THE CHURCH OVER TO WEATHERSFIELD IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
EMBELLISHED WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS.
Philadelphia : T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS, 806 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
A letter was dispatched to Weathersfield requesting Mr. Slick to forward a preface for his volume of epistles, but that gentleman instead sent the following letter, which is so full of his own peculiar humor that his friends will no doubt gladly accept of it in lieu of one.
The Publishers.
Ann S. Stephens
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