Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Port-folio: Second Series

Dedication

TO
MY TRUEST FRIEND,
OLIVER DYER,
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP NEVER FALTERED, IN ADVERSITY;
WHOSE SYMPATHY AND ENCOURAGEMENT CHEERED ME,
WHEN NO BOW OF PROMISE WAS SET IN MY SKY;
This Book is Gratefully Dedicated,

Preface

To my Readers:

Six months since, I was in a deplorable state of ignorance as to the most felicitous style of Preface; at this lapse of time, I find myself not a whit the wiser. You will permit me, therefore, in pressing again your friendly hands, simply to say, that I hope my second offering of “Fern Leaves” will be more worthy of your acceptance, than the first.

Fanny Fern.