{"product_id":"2940148770411","title":"THE NEW LADIES' TICKLER Or, The Adventures of Lady Lovesport and The Audacious Harry","description":"The editor of the following work thinks it may be interesting to his readers to know how the original manuscript came into his hands.\u003cbr\u003eSome years ago, an old lady of rank and fashion died suddenly in the country, at the house of a friend where she had been paying a visit. She had long outlived all her contemporary relatives and friends, and, having no family, the little property she possessed passed to some distant relations.\u003cbr\u003eAs it was well known that her fortune consisted solely of her jointure, which she was accustomed to spend to the last farthing, no one entertained any idea of benefiting by the event; and consequently, no one taking any interest in the matter, the editor was deputed to examine her repositories, and to destroy such letters and papers as might appear to be of no importance.\u003cbr\u003eWhile doing so, he discovered a curious old cabinet, which appeared to have been the receptacle for every description of old remembrance: miniatures, snuff boxes, locks of hair, and a quantity of old-fashioned trinkets of no intrinsic value—mingled with notes, letters, and copies of verses—filled the drawers.\u003cbr\u003eAfter clearing them out, it struck the editor that there was something peculiar in the shape of the cabinet and disposition of the drawers, and after a minute examination, be became satisfied that there was a secret drawer, which he had not explored. It cost him a good deal of trouble to divine the secret, but at last he succeeded in opening it. He was somewhat disappointed at first on finding that it contained merely a packet of papers in an envelope, with a superscription in the old lady's handwriting, to the effect that it was to be destroyed unopened in the event of her death.\u003cbr\u003eAs there was no one alive who was likely to be annoyed by the disclosure of any secrets of which the old lady might have been the depository, the editor took the liberty of opening the packet and\u003cbr\u003eperusing the contents. These proved to be a series of letters, written in different hands, evidently of youthful writers.\u003cbr\u003eOne of them was clearly the hand of the old lady herself, though somewhat different from that of her later years. The letters not only bore the marks of age, but also of having been frequently perused, and it was quite apparent that the venerable lady had been unable to resist the temptation of occasionally recurring to these tender reminiscences of the joys of her youth, and had preserved them for this purpose. It appeared from a note on one of them that her own letters had been returned to her by her friend, who had long predeceased her, so that the series was complete.","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067958640880,"sku":"2940148770411","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148770411_p0.jpg?v=1763714064","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148770411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}