Transcriber’s Notes
1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
2. Frontispiece relocated to after title page.
3. Typographic errors corrected in original:
p. 7 aways to always (“always did think”)
p. 8 breat-and-butter to bread-and-butter
p. 102 nuseries to nurseries (“to the nurseries”)
p. 154 by to my (“jealous of my influence”)
p. 159 life to like (“looked like artificial flowers”)