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Excerpt from Memoir of Mrs. Mary Howe: Of the City of New-York; Containing Selections From Her Letters and Diary My Dear Daughter, - Should your life be preserved until you arrive to years of maturity, a knowledge of the character of your own beloved mother cannot fail to be of inestimable value to you. To supply, as far as in my power, the lack of her own counsel and care, at a period when you may most need it, (which, had she lived, she would gladly have bestowed, ) I have occupied the months immediately succeeding her sudden departure in furnishing you with this memoir, to which I have been the more prompted, by the very slight tenure by which, for several years, I have held my own earthl...