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Translator: J. Leander Starr
LA GAVIOTA:
A SPANISH NOVEL.
BY FERNAN CABALLERO.
TRANSLATED BY J. LEANDER STARR.
NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY JOHN BRADBURN, 49 WALKER-STREET. 1864.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, BY JOHN BRADBURN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
TO
THE HON. GEORGE OPDYKE,
EX-MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
I am honored with your permission to dedicate to you this translation of the best novel in the Spanish language. This honor I can well appreciate. The urbanity of your character, and your firm integrity as a gentleman, a merchant, and while so ably filling the civic chair of this great city, have rendered you both distinguished and respected.
Glowing hopes and confident expectations were formed of your success in the performance of the arduous duties of Mayor, when, two years ago, you were inaugurated. Yesterday was a yet prouder day to yourself and to your friends, when the mantle of office fell gracefully from your shoulders, amid the applause and homage of citizens of all classes and shades of political opinion, the only strife among whom was, who should show to the courteous, impartial, and zealous retiring mayor the greatest respect.
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