Pleasure and pain written by Emily P. Burke is also known as Reminiscences of Georgia in the 1840's or just Reminiscences of Georgia. There is an introduction by Felicity Calhoun. The book focuses on Georgia, with description and travel, as well as plantation life in Georgia. This description of people and places, adventures and discoveries, was by Ms. Burke, who was a New England school teacher who came to Georgia in the 1840s.

Originally published in 1850 by J.M. Fitch, Oberlin, Ohio, under the title: Reminiscences of Georgia. This copy contains xii, 97 pages, and a portrait. Slight foxing on several pages, but book is fully scanned.