Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-11-06
IETTER FROM "A WILD FRESHMAN


IDLENILLE, Oct. III, lNJN.
rn,rops DEMorRiT: During the past summer
,o1 house has issued little vulum" entitled " PnrIn
~ John Holland" With your pernissiOng the author
IrJ the volume will form III" subject "f this letter
I'D n the story Of perseverance. at struggle aud
iavor 10 gain knowledge Ia arquiT" II amid diirutic
rd temptations, 10 seek for it in spite of the tauns
% ind hrrcn and sncrrs Of the ignorant, prove sruc
tive aud interesting claim hcaring--n hearing f"i
v friend for the author is and has been my most init
mate friend, one offhe best, til" warin"st most g"ner
ous most valued, attached and utterly Hhsrhsh ili'
ever had
ching in the way II criticism. merely propo.r, in u
Familiar Way to refer to the writer and glacc NJ his
poems. A., .. , :. .., ID,
In the wear 1851, in the State Of -. We bot II
youngstrrs lowering around twentieth year, and
~ soon became friends. Yet no two persons were
more unlike. was always poor m0ping character,
With the worst manncts IL the word-shy and backward
20 degree, while he was the life and delight Of every
society he chanccd 20 be in. With easy and polite
manner, bright and genial spirit, aud ready wit, hr
won his Wa! everywhere. On M! first acquaintance
with linn he Immersed in fun AMI frIlir of every
description. In the s"ri,'y OF women he delighted.
Thus III feeling in action in habit, all the natural
gifts Of intellect 'h"d@r"' r"iraX" aud generosity, As
veil AZ IN his many fnilcs and lmprudcncics, h"
what all unite in attaching {" the idea character of
an lrishman, which hr j.. Al this tImc h" Lad very
little education What he learned PRIOR to his twelfth
wear together with information draw from III"
quent reading Of few books Of the lighter sort com
prisrd his literary stock.
But change came over the spirit Of his life. lie
Awokr to the necessity If mental culture, AID Ia the
knowle ledge that the brightest natural talents grorn
bindy without IL. lie caught ftint giimpc II the
vapturc and enoymcn; that attends !itcnrd rn-
VIrrstantiug. lie read and -'udr and made rapid pro-
Srcss. With an cNpln,iNe mind and rctcut'c memory
tr b"cam" tOrTlly well Nrrrrd The facts, AMI
romPiyi.' r'i"-i '",'.;f "f s!,< p''"', "f r"f
uodeTh Ist"ry. Bu; work, less purely imag
stVc claimed his peculiar attention. rur>! va, his
chief delight. r'r"li"ct, among other thing, that
RnTns was a particular ftnItc with ham, indeed he
IL with me, aud WIth all who ADMIRE ta" h.gMc,t manly
dignity combined with the create; gr,ii,>.
The inst evidence # i"ctir ta.nt hr nanif,-t"d,
in writing somr hum 'rru, t"mprrau >u,s, Whch
hr tHitH applause AT u" meeting Oi tiIr
SrrtI Ot Wh'h hr vi n"ln - -l' y, Lt !h' way
that as dssu ed auid NrIS storm of Nit, IN
HItadci, Treasurer, >trrrtaII AID ''. hands utrd.
Invent down in cheer and laughter and high rArii,uont.
IN the r,A Of rl,,..- and tr cra.i, If Itii,. N.r
before sI tame soc"t; - ',i,;crnu- bra!. ,!u
tOn WIth the h''i"rs "f var
Having thu found rratdca'i"n IA" ,rrg,> Of
the hrld Of Poetry. h" anaitIon'd ~ rd f''r .
a,,idu.v lI"u f.r IA" has succeeded may lie gathered
from ths l:ti" Volume.
-.D r. johnson Thought Mh.n man of rouh turned
thor. h. merit "uslt q =" h,ni.url, ,tui,l, ,l,
Whatever may h" tiun.t f il-. .UriN thr mi,rii If
Young mar "hr, ".th"lt mr h ads Antt+"> f "iu'tirn
aid II friends, and ~" hustle # ,t,," cmi"ynirt
produces ""rh "t"ltA" t"' "rl! =" hi aht! but Ia
his energy, "ughi IT, 10" handsomely arkn. ,',d,'d
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on ",aA" h',i s!'nre al III p'rn.. In> con.,'r All
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