Excerpt from Change for the American Notes: In Letters From London to New York Dunner John - How wearisome is a slow re covary from illness in the heart of a m' hty city, and that when you are widowed an alone; how loudly do clattering carriages and countless noises tell of boisterous and unsympathizing health without, and what a petty unit one 'feels within Do you not think it is this sensation of unaided loneliness that makes so many of our sex (i may admit it to you) feel or consider spinsterhood and wretchedness inseparable! Better social penury than solitary enjoyment; better the poor creature small beer, with the flavour of a family about it, than imperial Tokay sipped from an unmated glass self-love and social in this sense bear out the poet's axiom, and are, indeed, the same. 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.