Shells From The Sands Of Bombay: Being My Recollections and Reminiscences-1860-1875

We have so often talked over the subject of these reminiscences that you will not need any assurance from me of the great personal pleasure which I have experienced in reading the pages in which you have gathered what you modestly call “Shells from the Sands of Bombay."Bombay has changed so fast, and is still changing so fast, that without such reminiscences future generations will have no conception of the evolution of the stately city which has grown up under our eyes. No-one who did not know Bombay, as you knew it, before Sir Bartle Frere levelled the ramparts, can picture the narrow walled town which has blossomed into the second city of the Empire.