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PREFACE.

A preface to this work seems hardly necessary. But if any ask reasons for its publication, they are briefly thesethe request of numerous friends and acquaintances of her whose genius and worth are illustrated in these pages, the intrinsic merit of the "Remains" and the " Address," and the hope of usefulness. To these may be added, the fact that incorrect copies of some of the pieces have already been published, in various papers; and the probability that others would thus find their way into literary journals, if not published by the friends of the Author. The volume, however, is designed for very limited circulation-the number. of copies printed being not many more than sufficient to supply friends, and others who have expressed a desire to obtain the work.

Since a part of this volume was printed, a copy of the number of the Ladies' Magazine containing "Twilight Musings," has been found,—in which, there is one word corrected by the Author. The reader will please substitute not for still, in the last line of the sixth stanza of that poem. H. L. C.