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DEDICATION.
in every point eligible, to the more accomplished and refined of her own sex, could not fail to have been approved by her, who know and exemplified so well the value and importance of such pursuits, and their inestimable effects upon the mind. These hopes, which my late honoured friend and patroness had, with her usual benignity, encouraged, are now most unhappily defeated, and I have no resource but in your Lordship, who is no stranger to my pretensions, nor to my sentiments, and in whom I have not now for the first time to seek an able and enlightened patron. I remain,
with the profoundest respect,
my Lord,
your Lordship's most obliged
and obedient servant,
Norwich,
Nov. 15, 1807.
