Excerpt from The Story of the Great Fire: Boston, November 9-10, 1872
This story of the great fire is but a pen sketch. No one can be more sensible than myself of the feebleness of the attempt to set forth in words the scene of the night. The text is but a thread of narrative, written that the public may have the benefit of Mr. Billings"s pencil. His pictures are accurate representations, and being such, are therefore historic. They are far more effectual than any words of mine can be to portray the indescribable grandeur of the conflagration.
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