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Excerpt from The New York of the Novelists
Seventeen years ago the writer of this vol ume, with a note book under one arm and a camera under the other, was engaged in roam ing through the streets of New York and its suburbs, following the trails of such men and women of fiction as the novelist, until that time, had been considerate enough to provide. It was a task undertaken with a very genuine lik ing and enthusiasm and there should be no reticence in recalling its direct inspiration. In previous visits to London the writer had had many pleasant hours in following the footsteps of Thackeray and Dickens, paying his respects to the house in Curzon Street where the Raw don Crawleys lived on nothing a year, the home of the Sedleys, near Russell Square, or wan dering down the High Street of the Borough of Southwark, and turning down Angel Court in search of the few remaining stones of the. 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.
