L’ ADIEU! 
A THIRD edition of my simple Lays and Legends of 
Flowers claims a few last words from me ere it goes 
forth to a kind and approving public, the remembrance 
of whose praise will ever he dear to me. 
If, from my future home in Australia, I should 
chance again to address my English friends, I shall 
hope to find them not less ready to receive my efforts 
with kind good-will:—if my brief, but most gratifying 
literary career he already ended, I have but once more 
to offer my heartfelt thanks to those who, by their 
encouraging approval and still increasing cordiality of 
praise, have rendered the three or four years in which 
I have been an “authoress,” the happiest I have yet 
known; and with true gratitude I now bid them 
Farewell. 
LOUISA A. MEREDITH. 
London, May 21, 1839. 
