LETTERS ΤΟ MY UNKNOWN FRIENDS. BY A LADY. OTHER LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1846. 1128. ADVERTISEMENT. THE title of this volume is borrowed from Lavater. His "Lettres à ses Amis Inconnus " are, however, entirely unknown to the Writer, with the exception of the title itself. This suited her purpose for the same reason, probably, as that which originally induced Lavater to fix upon it; the object being evidently to mark out and distinguish a particular class of persons to whom the Letters are specially addressed. Unless a peculiarity of intellectual nature and habits constituted them friends, though unknown ones, of the Writer, most of the observations contained in the following pages would be uninteresting-many of them altogether unintelligible. To the world at large the Writer has no desire to speak, even if she had the power |