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PREFACE.
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events of Mr. Henry’s life, and that his collection can be considered only as so many detached sketches, which has induced him to prefix this name to his book. If, in this humble and unassuming character, it shall give any pleasure to the numerous admirers of Mr. Henry, in Virginia, the author will have attained all that he has a right to expect.


RICHMOND, Virginia,
Sept. 5th, 1817.