SAN DIEGO AND CORONADO.
Coronado Beach, Cal., March 5, 1891.
I was induced to think about coming to Southern California by the tempting descriptions in Henry T. Finck’s book, “Scenic Tour of the Pacific Coast,” and by interesting articles in the Century Magazine. Toward San Diego and Coronado Beach my steps were turned by Charles Dudley Warner’s glowing accounts in Harper’s Magazine.
I had always accepted with a grain of salt the flattering reports so widely published, and now that I have seen for myself these wondrous things, my friends will scarcely credit my story, so enthusiastic have I become.
However, I do not intend that you shall rely on my mere “say so.” I’ve been looking up official and other authorities—men of wide reputation, who have a name to lose.