PREFACE
everywhere possible to distinguish what was first written from what was added, or substituted, between the lines. These corrections are not such as could have resulted from subsequent revision of a fair copy previously made. In very many places the author has changed her mind currente calamo; has begun a sentence in one form and finished it in another. The number and nature of such changes create a presumption, at least, that we are dealing with a first draft.
The manuscript consists of three quires. The first and second, which are sewn together, are of 16 and 24 leaves respectively, measuring 712 in. x 41116 in. The watermark, which occurs several times in both quires, is Kent 1812.
The first quire contains Chapters 1-3. The third chapter appears to end, on f. 16v, with an incomplete sentence; but the concluding words, that Loveliness was complete,
