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OHN ANDREW.

THE PROMPTER'S DAUGHTER.

OR,

BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

A SERIES OF NARRATIVES,

BY

ANNA CORA RITCHIE

(FORMERLY MRS. MOWATT),

AUTHOR OF “AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ACTRESS," "ARMAND," "FASHION,” ETC.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

WILLIAM FOUSHEE RITCHIE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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Whose name but yours could I inscribe upon this volume, commenced in my southern home, but two thirds written at the very desk over which your own honored form has bowed for more than half a century;- written in this sunny little chamber, which is hallowed to me by such a host of old associations? All harmonious influences have combined to render my labor light, and full of love. The very pine-trees, tossing their familiar plumes at the window, have aided in sending back my thoughts

"Along the pebbled shore of memory,"

that I might gather up the shells life's surges cast at my wandering feet; for my task has consisted in remembering, not inventing.

What this book will be to the world I cannot judge; to you, my beloved father, be it a remembrance of the brief months that, beneath your hospitable roof, have fled so happily for

Your daughter,

ANNA CORA RITCHIE.

RAVENSWOOD, October 27th, 1855.

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