Excerpt from The Huntington Letters: In the Possession of Julia Chester Wells At her request I have undertaken to add a word of explanation, without, how ever, attempting to annotate more than a few of the many names of persons which occur in these pages. It has been my ob jcet to reproduce these letters as much as possible in their original condition - to let them tell their own story, and not to edit away their peculiarities. For this reason I have retained their vagaries of Spelling; have refrained from supplying punctuation, even when it seemed much needed; nor have I ventured to cut down religious effusions, conventional precepts, harrowing descriptions of bodily ailments, or pretty phrases of courtesy; these are touches of the time, and throw light on social and economic conditions. 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.