“The Editor’s Address to Her Young Readers” (from The Juvenile Magazine, January 1788; pp. 3-4)
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EDITOR’s ADDRESS
TO HER
YOUNG READERS.
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My young Readers,
The very great partiality I entertain for youth, has induced me to engage in a plan, which I flatter myself will be productive not only of your present amusement, but of your future welfare.
To you, my young friends, who are fond of instruction, this Magazine will be particularly advantageous; you will peruse it with delight, and glean from it that useful knowledge which will endear you to your friends, and render you, at maturer years, valuable members of society: nor does my zeal for your service rest here; there are, without doubt
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among you, some who are, from various circumstances, deprived of a tender parent, or friend, to correct their little foibles, and to guide them with propriety in the path of life they are destined to tread; to such, the Editor of the Juvenile Magazine may not prove an useless correspondent: should you, my young friends, at any time perceive an unruly passion or habit intruding, or a situation in which you are at a loss to conduct yourselves, by addressing a letter to the Editor, at Mr. Marshall’s, you will be furnished, in the next Magazine, with that advice which may enable you to overcome the one, and accomodate yourselves to the other.
Those young persons who wish to contribute to the Juvenile Magazine by any literary production, will have that attention paid to their performances, which their abilities, and the goodness of their intentions may merit.