Excerpt from Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray
It is a selfish sentiment, dear Courier, which inspires me to begin these most rambling and accidental notes of the European pilgrimage now fairly inaugurated, as you wot. by two wandering sons of Buffalo. Glittering Old World visions draw our eyes to look eastward; but the heart rides in a sort of figurative rowboat when it travels from home, - even while it speeds at the fastest away it sits steadily facing the place whence it came, and dreads above all things to be forgotten there. It is that dread, dear Courier, which makes me write, braving the terror of being tiresome, and the horror of reproducing, for the millionth time, the unspeakable staleness known to newspaper readers under the title of 'Letters from Europe.' Wrapped, as often as may be, in your Saturday sheet, I would make ghostly visits to Buffalo, and defy yon, by the solemnity of the apparitions, to forget us.
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