Note 8 — EXTRACTS FROM MISS SEWARD’S LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE. (continued 2)

The pious author of the above letter could not suppose it would be comprehended by infants of four and five years old. He certainly meant it should be preserved for their inspection in riper years, when the consciousness that it had been written under the immediate impressions of the affecting scene it describes, would add force to the precepts and to the example it holds forth.