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Title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow
A Boston School Girl of 1771

Author: Anna Green Winslow

Editor: Alice Morse Earle

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Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

Spelling, punctuation and capitalization are as in the
original. This includes the writer's various spellings
of her own name.

Ordinals such as "1st", "2d", "4th" were consistently
written in superscript. They are shown here as unmarked
text. Other superscript abbreviations are shown with caret
as M^rs, Hon^d.

The printed book included a facsimile image of a typical
diary page. A transcription of this passage appears
immediately before the diary proper.

DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW

A Boston School Girl of 1771

Edited by

ALICE MORSE EARLE

[Illustration: ANNA GREEN WINSLOW]

[Publisher's Device:
Tout bien ou rien]

Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895

Copyright, 1894,
By Alice Morse Earle.
All rights reserved.

Third Edition.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

This Book

_Is Dedicated_
_To_
_The Kinsfolk Of_

_ANNA GREEN WINSLOW_

_FOREWORD._

_In the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green
Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston,
the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston s