Transcribe Vassar, John G. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1862-03-07)

Poughkeepsie March 7/62 Henry A. Ward Esq. D Sir

    Your complementary

letter of 5th is at hand just on the eve of my departure for New York therefore hasten to reply– I can very well appreciate he interest felt by a great & ex- perienced traveler like yourself in he works of another, but that you should particularly call to mind the strange scene & events in the South West coast of Africa is not remarkable as you wisely remember they made deeper im- -pressions than anything else

    As stated in the short

preface of my Book I reluc- -tantly came before the public but now a portion of my traveling experience is before the world & I should differ

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