Excerpt from The Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll All of these I have gone over with care and have extracted a good deal from them. The large majority are, unfortunately, letters to Mr. Ingersoll, and I have seen comparatively few written by him. This is much to be regretted, for his letters are in general full of interest and instruction, as well as very vivacious. I have reproduced some of them, and have also reproduced at length in Chapter IV. A diary which he kept during a visit to Washington in 1823. This latter was written for the purpose of sending to Mr. Rush in England, and gives an extremely interesting picture of the social life and political struggles of the day. The student of his tory and observer of mankind will certainly find both pleasure and profit in the intimate view the diary and his letters in general give of the great men and events of a past generation. 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.