BY HER FRIEND,
EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.
Prospect Cottage,
February 16th, 1856.
PREFACE.
The leading incidents of the following story were suggested by circumstances in the life of a near relative, long since, we trust, in Heaven. I have used the novelist’s privilege in giving a happier termination to the fiction than is warranted by the facts.
E. D. E. N. S.
Prospect Cottage,
February 16th, 1856.