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PREFACE Elizabeth Davis Bancroft, the writer of these letters, was the youngest child and only daughter of William and Rebecca Morton Davis, and was born at Plymouth, Mass., in October, 1803.  She often spoke in later times of what a good preparation for her life abroad were the years she spent at Miss Cushing’s school at Hingham, and of her visits to her uncles, Judge Davis and Mr. I. P. Davis of Boston.  In 1825 she married Alexander Bliss, a brilliant young lawyer and a junior partne