ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE following Letters comprise a real, and not fictitious correspondence. They are the fruit of a protracted recovery from long illness; and are published with a chastened hope, that although originally designed for individual characters and cases, they may admit of a less restricted application. May 1, 1828. M. J. J. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. THE Author would almost deem it impertinent to prefix another Advertisement to these Letters, did she not feel anxious to thank those who have shown so much indulgence to so slight a work ; did she not also wish to give expression to a hope that when she next solicits their attention, it may be for some production less desultory, and more matured. In this edition, letters xxv. xxvi. xxvii. are new; the whole have been revised; and, as a not inappropriate conclusion, the Author has appended a poem originally published without her name. January, 1832. |