7. The play is reproduced in the Augustan Reprint Society's Publication No. 124 (Los Angeles, 1967), with an introduction by Lucyle Hook. 8. Page references are to the "second edition" of 1715. See Paul B. Anderson, "Mistress Delariviere Manley's Biography," _MP_, XXXIII (1935-36), 270-271, for further details. 9. _The Rise of the Novel_ (London, 1957), Chapter I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The text of this facsimile of _Olinda's Adventures_ (from the second volume of _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Occasions_ [1718]) is published with the permission of the Trustees of the Newberry Library. The unique recorded copy (in the Bodleian Library) of the duodecimo first edition of 1693 is too small and too poorly printed to be reproduced in the present series. The SECOND VOLUME OF _Familiar Letters_ OF =LOVE, GALLANTRY= And several OCCASIONS, BY THE WITS _of the Last and Present Age_. With the best of _VOITURE_'s Letters, Translated by Mr. DRYDEN and Mr. T. BROWN. ALSO THE REMAINS Of the Celebrated Mr. =T. BROWN;= BEING LETTERS, POEMS and DIALOGUES on the TIMES, not Printed in his WORKS. LONDON, Printed for =SAM. BRISCOE.= 1718. [Decoration] _Olinda's_ Adventures: OR THE AMOURS Of a Young LADY. By _Mrs._ TROTTER. LETTER I. _Dear Cleander_, I Hope I need not tell you how uneasie this tedious Absence makes me; for I must confess as troublesome as I find it, and as much as I Value you, I can't but wish you may be able to guess at it by what you suffer your self: A strange Effect of the highest degree of Friendship; for if I had less for you, I shou'd not so earnestly desire to hear you are in Pain; but such Contradictions are no Mysteries to you, who understand so well the little Niceties of Friendship. That you may see I study nothing more in this Solitude than to oblige you; I've resolv'd to employ most part of my time in complying with that Request you've often made me, of giving you a particular account of all that has happen'd to me in my Life; tho' I fear I shall lose part of that Esteem which you have hitherto preserved for me, by acquainting you with some Passages of it, which yet I hope have nothing in 'em so ill, that the kindness of a Friend mayn't find out something in the Circumstances of the Story to Excuse: For tho' perhaps I have not always been so nicely cautious as a Woman in strictness ought, I have never gone beyond the bounds of solid Virtue. To put all to the hazard then, I will give you a faithful Account of all my Weaknesses. My Father dying, left me when I was very young, to the Tuition of a Mother, who as you know is qualify'd for such a Charge equal to any of her Sex; and she indeed perform'd her part as well as her small Fortune wou'd permit her, which was scarce sufficient to maintain her, in that Rank her Birth had placed her. However, she