ISA A PILGRIMAGE
BYCAROLINE CHESEBRO
"'T is but a dream!" "IT IS A THOUGHT."REDFIELD CLINTON HALL, NEW YORK
1852Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, BY J. S. REDFIELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY C. C. SAVAGE, 13 Chambers Street, N. Y.
To Grace Greenwood and Alice Carey.
WHEN this book was finished, I had it in my thought to write for it a prefatory letter, which should convey to you, my friends, an explanation and an idea. I could think of none, in all the world, to whom I might so fitly, and with such proud affection, dedicate this PILGRIMAGE of a striving mind and a great heart, as to you, who are, as ISA was, workers true and noble, diligent seekers of a "better country" that lies even in this toiling world, a country where the Spiritual and Ideal reign and conquer, putting all worldliness and mere ambition under their feet . . . . But at this moment when such letter page: 4-5[View Page 4-5] must be written if at all, my heart is leaping toward you with a very different form of expression than that I should be compelled to adopt in such a document, and all I can find to say is, a blessing on your Pilgrimage! which is said with a loving and reverent admiration for the power that has so triumphantly brought you into the harvest-field of the elect of Genius.
CAROLINE CHESEBRO'.
Canandaigua, 1852.