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— Gray.
With this letter, my dear brother, youwill receive a part of the manuscripts,which I engaged to send you: these leavescontain the memoirs of the unfortunateUrania Venosta, which have interestedme greatly from a variety of reasons.I had erroneously supposed that theMS. was complete, but it proves to benothing more than a fragment. PerhapsI imprudently included the second2part of her adventures in the numberof those papers, which I was compelledto restore to the Abbess’s custody; butI am rather more inclined to believe,that Time has destroyed the remainderof these memoirs, whose conclusion I amso desirous of perusing.
It’s true, I have found a few more detachedleaves, and the last page or two;but these only serve to augment a curiosity,which would have remained totallyunsatisfied, if I had suffered the labour ofexamining the moth-eaten par