A Diary of a Journey to the East, 1856

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Excerpt from A Diary of a Journey to the East, 1856: In the Autumn of and Colonel of the Third Royal Lancashire Militia, And Best and Greatest Friend of the Town Green, the Following JourneyKind, and travelled in the whole some thousands of miles, yet I had seen no examples of painting or sculpture, or of any of the fine arts except architecture, and like the hero in Southey's ballad, I felt that I had neither story nor adventures to tell. Still it was easier to say yes to one news paper editor, than to say No to all my friends, more especially when the former answer, while it gratified him whom it most concerned, would at the same time transfuse my half legible manuscript into legible letterpress, and oblige those many friends who took an interest in my story, not for itself, but for the writer's sake. This answer, which has now made me once an author, has made me thrice a traveller once, by the actual journey in which for weeks I travelled over rough and dangerous roads, and across seas equally rough, and perhaps more dangerous secondly, when with pen and ink, I re-travelled the same route without its difficulties, but with almost equal pleasure and thirdly, when in plain and readable type, and with more than a traveller's ubiquity, I was enabled to appear in many places, and to many distant friends, at one and the same time. If my readers derive from the Diary any portion of the pleasure that the journey has given me, I shall be amply repaid for my time and trouble in recording it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.