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Title: Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

Author: Lucinda Lee Orr

Release Date: September 1, 2007 [eBook #22487]

Language: English

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JOURNAL OF A YOUNG LADY OF VIRGINIA

1782.

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Printed and Published
For the Benefit of the Lee Memorial Association of Richmond,
By John Murphy and Company,
No. 182 Baltimore Street,
Baltimore.
1871.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
Emily V. Mason,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PREFACE

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The following pages contain a fragment of the Journal of a young lady of
Virginia of the last century.

It seems to have been written by her while on a visit to her relatives,
the Lees, Washingtons, and other families of Lower Virginia, mentioned
in her Journal.

The friend for whom it was intended was Miss Polly Brent, also of
Virginia.

The manuscript was found torn, and discolored by age, in an old desk at
the country place in Maryland, to which Polly Brent carried it, upon her
marriage into one of the old families of that State.

The Lees, of whom so much mention is made in the Journal--"Nancy,"
"Molly," "Hannah," and "Harriet"--were the daughters of Richard Henry
Lee, of Chantilly. Molly married W. A. Washington, and Hannah was--at
the time of the Journal--the wife of Corbin Washington. Their grandson,
John A. Washington, was the last occupant of Mount Vernon.

Harriet married the son of Mrs. Turberville, the "o