Letters from America

A collection of travel letters recounts a journey through the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, presenting vivid city sketches of New York and Boston, provincial portraits from Montreal to Winnipeg, and striking descriptions of Niagara, the Prairies, and the Rockies. The pieces mix atmospheric landscape and urban observation with literary-minded reflection, personal anecdote, and encounters with Indigenous and other local communities, while also offering candid, sometimes dated, commentary on race and society; the volume closes with a personal portrait and includes a prefatory essay by a contemporary writer.