Volume the First: Diplomatic Display Oxford Bodleian Library, MS.Don.e.7.
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.
June 2d 1793 —