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Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.

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Identifier: MS.6658
Scope and Contents

The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).

Dates: 1738-1739.

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