Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), November 1, 1845, vol. 2, no. 17, p. ???, col. ?

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Appleton's Miscellany. No. 4. Memoirs of an American. Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they existed previous to the Revolution. By Mrs. Grant, Author of “Letters from the Mountains,” etc. etc.

This work is not unknown in America, of course; but we are especially glad to see it re-published. It is a faithful record of most interesting realities — of manners, persons, and events as they existed and occurred, lang syne, in the “Province of New-York.” Mrs. Grant — who is perhaps better known as the author of “The Cottagers of Glenburnie” than of “Letters from the Mountains” — [page 258:] speaks of the Work as an account of “the rapid pace with which an infant society has urged on its progress from virtuous simplicity to the dangerous knowledge of good and evil — from tremulous imbecility to self-sufficient independence.”

An admirable letter from Grant Thorburn, giving some reminiscences of this amiable lady, is quite judiciously published by way of Preface.