The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils / Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other.

by Hannah Webster Foster

Like Laura’s charms, to give delight!

Fair, fragrant, soft, like beauty dress’d;

So she unrivalled stands confess’d;

While blending still each finish’d grace,

Her virtues in her mien we trace!

Virtues, which far all tints outshine,

And, verdant brave the frost of time.

I am, &c.

SOPHIA MANCHESTER.

To Miss MARIA WILLIAMS.