Excerpt from My First Cousin or Myself This will prove a pleasant and acceptable book to those who love to ponder over my interesting and varied experience in Southern California. The foremost and noblest character in this little book of letters is that of myself; therefore, I have not the presumption to attempt to give anything that would bear the appearance of a critical judgment on a work, written by myself to my own First Cousin. Wanted, a hand to hold mine own, As down life's vale I glide. 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.