BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1881.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
L. MARIA CHILD,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
TWELFTH EDITION.
TO
MY DEAR AND HONORED FRIENDS
Miss LUCY OSGOOD
AND
Miss HENRIETTA SARGENT,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR THEIR EXAMPLE,
WHICH CONFERS BEAUTY AND DIGNITY ON DECLINING YEARS,
BY ACTIVE USEFULNESS AND KINDLY SYMPATHY
WITH THE HUMAN RACE.
PREFACE.
