This etext was prepared by Jane Duff and proofed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1904 Smith, Elder and Co. edition.
LETTERS FROM ENGLAND 1846-1849
LETTER: TO W.D.B. AND A.B. LIVERPOOL, October 26, 1846
My dear sons: Thank God with me that we are once more on TERRA FIRMA. We arrived yesterday morning at ten o'clock, after a very rough voyage and after riding all night in the Channel in a tremendous gale, so bad that no pilot could reach us to bring us in on Saturday evening. A record of a sea voyage will be only interesting to you who love me, but I must give it to you that you may know what to expect if you ever undertake it; but first, I must sum it all up by saying that of all horrors, of all physical miseries, tortures, and distresses, a sea voyage is the greatest . . . The Liverpool paper this morning, after announcing our arrival