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Joanna Baillie, Preface, p. 36 (25  September  1831) Baillie, Joanna ‘Introductory discourse'
in A series of plays. In which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind… 1798
WG reads the ‘Introductory discourse' on 1800-05-05 and calls it ‘preface.'
WG's sale catalog lists:
Baillie's (Joanna) Plays, on the Passions of the Mind, 2 vol. 1798-1802 (item 25).
OR
Baillie, Joanna ‘To the Reader'
in A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. 1798-1812
The third volume ( 1812) contains a prefatory address ‘To the Reader.'

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• 25  September  1831
• 26  September  1831