Excerpt from Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins Containing Extracts From His Diaries and Letters: With an Appendix He soon afterwards accepted an invitation to join his brother in St. Domingo, and they formed a house there which Was very successful; but, finding that the climate did not agree with his health, he returned to Boston, and for some time attended to the business of the house in the United States, where their correspond ence was extensive, - his younger brother, the late Samuel G. Perkins, Esq., filling his place in the firm. 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.