TWO YEARS' RESIDENCE, &c. &c.
Wambro, English Prairie, Illinois State, North America.
June 5th, 1820.
As I was much pressed to write to many of my friends in England, to give them my opinion of emigrating to America, and as I promised to write to several, to give them my sentiments of America, and of my situation here; I will now endeavour to give them the best description in my power of our voyage and journey to this place, and how I am now situated, and of my future prospects.
As to the propriety of any person's leaving England, I must decline giving any advice on the subject.
{2} As I was conscious but little information could be conveyed in the short space of a letter to any particular friend, I shall, therefore, present them, (that is, all those who requested me to write to them,) with some extracts from my Journal.
Extracts of a Journal, kept from April 29th to September 25th, 1819
We left Killinghurst about noon, on April 29, and arrived at Portsmouth in the evening. Our party consisted of nine persons, including Mr. C. and a female servant.