The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1

THE
ORPHEUS C. KERR PAPERS.
NEW YORK: BLAKEMAN & MASON, 21 MURRAY STREET. 1862.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by BLAKEMAN & MASON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
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CONTENTS.
LETTER I.
SHOWING HOW OUR CORRESPONDENT CAME INTO THE WORLD: WITH SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD.
Washington, D.C., March 20th, 1861.
Judge not by appearances, my boy; for appearances are very deceptive, as the old lady cholerically remarked when one, who was really a virgin on to forty, blushingly informed her that she was just twenty-five this month.
Though you find me in Washington now, I was born of respectable parents, and gave every indication, in my satchel and apron days, of coming to something better than this,—much better, my boy.