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BE IT REMEMBERED: That on the thirtieth day of December, in the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, LYDIA HUNTLEY, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof she claims as Authoress in the words following, to wit:

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."

⁠HENRY W. EDWARDS, Clerk of the District of Connecticut.
⁠A true copy of Record examined and sealed by me,

⁠HENRY W. EDWARDS, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. ​

A FEW of the productions now brought before the public were intended for the use of a School; but the greater part arose from the impulse of the moment, at intervals of relaxation from such domestic employments, as the circumstances of the writer, and her parents, rendered indispensable. Most of them were written when she was very young, and, with the exception of two or three short pieces, the whole, before she had attained the age of twenty-three years. ​