Excerpt from Cairo, Petra and Damascus in 1839: With Remarks on the Government of Mehemet Ali, and on the Present Prospects of Syria
My dear Roberts,
The interesting scenes through which we passed last year must become better known in this country from the admirable productions of your pencil, so full of truth, so redolent of the very atmosphere of Egypt and Arabia, than any written description can make them. But however little others may feel interested in reading the following pages, I may hope that you will find here and there some few words of conversation with our old friend Sheich Hussein, or some little incident, unheeded by other readers, which shall recall to your mind scenes that could not be made the subject of your art, and were too dramatic, perhaps, for ordinary prose description. Memory will fill up these meagre outlines, supply all the accessories of the picture, and impart to it the colouring of nature
In inscribing this little volume to you, the companion of my wanderings, I offer but a slight expression of my sincere regard of my value for your friendship, and my admiration of your talents.
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