Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The simplest account of the origin of _The Princess Casamassima_ is, I think, that this fiction proceeded quite directly, during the first year of a long residence in London, from the habit and the interest of walking the streets. I walked a great deal—for exercise, for amusement, for acquisition, and above all I always walked home at the evening’s end, when the evening had been spent elsewhere, as happened more often than not; and as to do this was to receive many impressions, so the impressions worked and sought an issue, so the book after a time was born. …
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