Excerpt from Living Words
My dear Mr. Tompkins:
I have just received your note, asking me to furnish a short preface to the volume of selections from the writings of Dr. Chapin, which you are about to publish. In order to fulfil your request, I must -write a few lines without delay, and hurry them off by Pony Express to Boston; so that if these words reach you, and are accepted, you must give thanks, not to the plodding mail stage, nor to the circuitous steamers, but to the flying courier who, down snowy slopes of the Sierras, across desolate plains, at the risk of rifle-shot or deadly arrow from the Indians, and over passes of the Rocky Mountains, takes a direct line for the queen city of the Mississippi, and connects us by letter with the coast of Massachusetts, in fourteen days.
A great distance to send for an introductory word! But our affections, thank Heaven, are not cooled by thousands of miles of space. You could easily have found some one nearer home who would have written a more fitting preface; but you could not, I am sure, find one who would prize more highly the privilege of connecting his name with a volume destined to such wide service; and I know that it would be difficult for you to find one who would write with heartier friendship for the publisher, or with more cordial admiration for the genius of Dr. Chapin.
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