Volume the Second: Diplomatic Display London British Library, Add. MS. 59874
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To Miſs Fanny Catherine Austen
My dear Neice
As I am prevented by the great distance between Rowling & Steventon from superintending Your Education Myself, the care of which willprobably on that account devolve on your Father& Mother, I think it is my particular Duty toprevent your feeling as much as poſsible the wantof my personal instructions, by addreſsing to Youon paper my Opinions & Admonitions on the conductof Young Women, which you will find expreſsedin the following pages. ––– I am my dear Neice
Your affectionate Aunt
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