Excerpt from The Last of the Peterkins: With Others of Their Kin HE following Papers contain the last records of the Peterkin Family, Who unhappily ventured to leave their native land and have never returned. Eliza beth Eliza's Commonplace Book has been found among the family papers, and Will be published here for the first time. It is evident that she foresaw that the family were ill able to contend With the commonplace struggle of life; and we may not wonder that they could not survive the unprecedented, far away from the genial advice of friends, especially that of the Lady from Philadelphia. 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.