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Title: The Little Nightcap Letters.

Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Release Date: August 26, 2009 [EBook #29812]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Children coaxing Mr. Appleton to tell where Aunt
Fanny lived.]

THE LITTLE NIGHTCAP LETTERS.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
"NIGHTCAPS," "NEW NIGHTCAPS," "BABY NIGHTCAPS,"
ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
90, 92 & 94 GRAND ST.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1869.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
FANNY BARROW,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the
Southern District of New York.

Dedication.

THESE LITTLE NIGHTCAP LETTERS

ARE LOVINGLY DEDICATED

TO MY DAUGHTER,

"LITTLE ALICE."

CONTENTS.

PAGE
NIGHTCAP LETTER No. 2 FROM AUNT FANNY, 7
INTRODUCTION TO BELLA'S LETTERS, 45
THE NIGHTCAP LETTERS, HOW THEY CAME TO BE WRITTEN, 51
FIRST LETTER, 64
SECOND LETTER, 69
THE FIRST LETTER FROM CHARLESTON, 73
THIRD LETTER, 76
FOURTH LETTER, 94
FIFTH LETTER, 127
SIXTH LETTER, 159
THE RETURN,