SOURCE: Introduction to Salmagundi; or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others …, L. M. Richardson, 1811, pp. v-liv.
In the following essay, Lambert explains the nature of the essays in Salmagundi and the particular qualities of American culture.
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