Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

The following pages contain a fragment of the journal of a young lady of Virginia of the last century. It seems to have been written by her while on a visit to her relatives, the Lees, Washingtons, and other families of Lower Virginia, mentioned in her Journal. The friend for whom it was intended was Miss Polly Brent, also of Virginia. The manuscript was found torn, and discolored by age, in an old desk at the country place in Maryland, to which Polly Brent carried it, upon her marriage into one of the old families of that State.