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TO
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
PRESIDENT
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
SIR,
AMBITIOUS to avoid both the
style and the sentiment of common dedication, more frequently the incense of adulation than the result of truth, I only ask the illustrious Washington to permit a lady of his acquaintance, to introduce to the public, under his patronage, a small volume written as the amusement of solitude, at a period when every active member of society
was engaged, either in the field, or the cabinet, to resist the strong hand of foreign domination.
The
