Excerpt from A Familiar Epistle to Robert J. Walker, Formerly of Pennsylvania, Later of Mississippi, More Recently of Washington, and Last Heard of in Mr. Coxwell's Balloon, From an Old Acquaintance: To Which Is Prefixed a Biographical Sketch IT is a trite remark that the world never knows its greatest men. The word Walker, being familiar to London ears only as a cant term employed by vulgar little boys to express incredulity, it may be proper to preface the reply to some letters lately addressed by a person of that name to the British public, by a slight sketch of his past history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.