To Miſs Jane Anna Elizabeth Austen

My Dear Neice

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 Parents You will one day or another be able to readwritten hand, I dedicate to You the following Miscellanious Morsels, 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.