“I felt it an imperative duty, before that event shall take place, to inform you that I am the wedded wife of the same George Almont, whom you are about to marry.  He came to Boston about five years since, having, as he said, just completed his studies in the city of New York.  He opened an office in this city for the practice of his profession; and, as his external appearance was pleasing, he soon gained an entrance into good society.  I need not inform you that he was likely to make a favorable impression upon the mind of a young lady just entering society.  He rose rapidly in his profession; and although my parents were wealthy, when they saw how deeply I was attached to him, they did not object to my receiving his addresses, as he bid fair to rise to a position of wealth and influence.  It is needless, as well as painful, for me to dwell upon the subject.  Two years after he first came to Boston we were married.  We soon removed to our own dwelling, which was a wedding gift to me, from my father.  For a time he treated me with the utmost kindness and affection.  But you may believe me, Miss Simmonds, when I inform you that he has been a dissipated, unprincipled man from his youth.  His seemingly correct habits had merely been put on, for the purpose of gaining him an entrance into respectable society.  When he began to treat me with indifference and neglect, for a long time I bore it in silence; but I was at length forced to acquaint my parents of the matter.  My father soon took measures to ascertain what manner of life he had led while pursuing his studies in New York; and the information he gained was very discreditable to Mr. Almont.  But my parents advised me, as we were married, to try if, by kindness, I could not reclaim him from his evil ways.  I willingly followed their advice, for I still loved him; but, I suppose the restraint which for a time he had imposed upon himself made him all the more reckless when he returned to his evil courses.  He soon seemed to lose all respect for me as well as for himself; and his conduct became so vicious that my father recalled me to his home, and forbade Mr. Almont from ever again entering his dwelling.  I could, I presume, have obtained a divorce from him with little difficulty, but I shrank from the publicity attached to such a course.  I still reside with my father and mother.  Mr. Almont left Boston soon after I returned to my parents.  We heard nothing of him for some time; but we lately heard from a reliable source that he was residing in Littleton, in New Hampshire, and also of his approaching marriage.  Nothing but a sense of duty would have induced me to make this communication to you.  I would save another young life from being shadowed by the same cloud which has darkened mine.  Should you doubt the truth of what I have written, you can easily satisfy yourself, by either visiting this city in person, or causing any of your relatives so to do.  Enclosed you will find the street and number of my residence.  I sincerely hope you will receive this communication in the spirit in which it is written, and that is, one of kindness, and a desire to save you from the sorrows which I have experienced.