# The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker

THE
POSTHUMOUS WORKS
OF
ANN ELIZA BLEECKER,
IN
PROSE AND VERSE.
To which is added,
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS,
PROSE AND POETICAL,
B Y
MARGARETTA V. FAUGERES.
NEW-YORK: Printed by T. and J. Swords, No. 27, William-Street. —1793.—
To the Public.
IN the publication of Posthumous Works, it has been usual for the Editors or Publishers to accompany them with a Prefatory Address,—generally explaining the particular reasons for offering them to the world, or relating their peculiar merits, and consequently their claim to the patronage of the lovers of science. In compliance with this general custom we think it necessary merely to note, that having been frequently solicited to publish, in a separate volume, a part of those writings of Mrs. Bleecker which had appeared in the New-York Magazine, we conceived a collection of all such of her poems and essays as might with propriety come before the public, would be more likely to meet the approbation both of her friends, and of the friends of American literature. Having suggested this idea to those who appeared most strenuous for the measure, we were pleased to find it met their hearty concurrence; and through the obliging disposition of her husband and daughter, we are now happy in being able to present this volume to our fellow citizens.
​We are indebted to a friend for the idea of adding a number of prose and poetical essays, which likewise first appeared in the New-York Magazine, most of them under the signature of Ella, and which are the production of Mrs. Margaretta V. Faugeres, the daughter of Mrs. Bleecker. Our obligations to this lady are much increased by the addition of several Original Essays in verse, which the reader will find interspersed in that part of the collection which comprehends her writings.
It is not our intention to recommend this volume by an elaborate display of its particular merits or peculiar excellencies: the best recommendation we can give it, is an attentive perusal: and when this is done, that the reader of tasle and elegance will join in asserting, that though it is not faultless, yet that its merits preponderate, and entitle it to the patronage of every true American, is the candid opinion of
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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