To Miſs Jane Anna Elizabeth Austen

My DearNeice

Though you are at this period not ma::ny degrees removed from Infancy, Yet trustingthat you will in time be older, and thatthrough the care of your excellent ParentsYou will one day or another be able to readwritten hand, I dedicate to You the followingMiscellaniousMorsels, convinced that [.] if youseriously attend to them, You will derive fromthem very important Instructions, withregard to your Conduct in Life. ––– If suchmy hopes should hereafter be realized, nevershall I regret the Days and Nights that havebeen spent in composing these Treatises foryour Benefit —. I am my dear Neice

Your very Affectionate

 Aunt.

 The Author.