COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUT I O RS.

VOL. XXXII.

AMERICAN NOTES BY CHARLES DICKENS.

IN ONE VOLUME.

I DEDICATE

THIS BOOK

TO THOSE FRIENDS OF MINE

IN AMERICA,

who,

GIVING ME A WELCOME

I MUST EVER GRATEFULLY

AND PROUDLY REMEMBER,

. LEFT MY JUDGMENT

FREE;

AND WHO,

LOVING THEIR COUNTRY,

CAN BEAR THE TRUTH,

WHEN IT IS TOLD

GOOD HUMOUREDLY,

AND IN A KIND SPIRIT.