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my mind."^[1] The only friends to whom the author communicated her manuscript, were Mr. Dyson, the translator of the Sorcerer, and the present editor; and it was impossible for the most inexperienced author to display a stronger desire of profiting by the censures and sentiments that might be suggested.^[2]

In revising these sheets for the press, it was necessary for the editor, in some places, to connect the more finished

1. A more copious extract of this letter is subjoined to the author's preface.
2. The part communicated consisted of the first fourteen chapters.

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