ROSE OF SHARON: RELIGIOUS SOUVENIR, FOR M DCCC XLVIII. EDITED BY MRS. S. C. EDGARTON MAYO. BOSTON: A. TOMPKINS, AND B. B. MUSSEY & CO. 1848. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by ABEL TOMPKINS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of BOSTON: Printed by S. N. DICKINSON, 52 Washington street. PREFACE. WE cannot revert to the nine years that have passed, since the bashful debut of our Annual, without mingled emotions of gratitude, sorrow, and satisfaction; gratitude to contributors for their aid, and to the public for its approbation; sorrow for many errors and deficiencies in the past, and for the loss of some names whose places cannot be soon filled; and satisfaction in the increase of aid from those whose promise is of a long period of literary distinction. Some unavoidable omissions of articles have occurred in the present volume, from a lack of room; amongst which we regret several poems, and an excellent story by Mrs. Chesebro. The authors will please receive our thanks and our regrets. In conclusion, we offer our best wishes to our readers, with the hope to meet them again in succeeding years. If our efforts have given them pleasure, their approval has, in turn, been our inspiration. May this mutual interchange of favors be long uninterrupted. |