[What she has written hitherto gives us only an account of what happened to her in the world, before she was religious, and what happened the first years of her religious life, before she was chosen Superior. It pleased Almighty God that she should be so afflicted by sickness, or otherwise taken up with business, as never to finish the remaining part of her life, by which we are deprived of those instructions we had reason to expect from it. I find among her papers some few passages which happened about or after the time she was Superior, which I shall give here, as they were penned down by her, without much order of time.]– Collector.

In obedience to my director, with the help of my dear Saint who seems near me, I will relate what happened when I was first chosen Superior, almost ten years ago. Though I have much business on my hands, yet seeing my director will give me leave for no extraordinary penance, I will impose this upon myself by way of mortification to prepare myself for the ensuing feast of my great patron, physician, and father, St. Xaverius, and will, on this account, endeavour every day to write something.