The inclosed Account I transmit to you for publication, at the
particular request of a friend, who is well acquainted with the
circumstances that gave rise to it.--It is drawn up by a female
hand, and she here relates respecting Mr. Y-------- what she knew
of him herself, and what she had heard of him in her father’s
family, where he had been an occasional visitant; as I have no
reason to believe that this transaction has ever appeared in print,
you will be pleased to give it a place among your original
compositions.