which first appeared in the Boston _Transcript_. It is included in _The Hymnal_, 1940. In his later years he published, or had privately printed, several small booklets containing these and other poems by him: _Songs of the Spirit_, 1932; _Songs of Faith and Hope_, 1940; _Songs at Sunset_, 1951; _Songs of a Lifetime_, 1953; and _In a Rose Garden_, 1956. Of these, _Songs of a Lifetime_ contains what he regarded as his best poems, as well as his latest hymns, among them one widely used on United Nations Sunday, beginning, 11. _Freedom, thy holy light_, and a fine national hymn, 12. _O my country, land of promise_, A number of his hymns have been included in the hymnals of several denominations, and No. 2 was translated into Japanese. Dr. Ham’s hymns manifest a deep spiritual insight expressed with literary craftsmanship of a high order, which make them among the most notable contributions to American hymnody in the first half of the 20^th century. H.W.F. Harris, Florence, (Mrs. Robert G. Hooke) (1891-1933) wrote in 1907, for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New Jersey, of which she was a member a hymn entitled “The Founders,” beginning, _Like pilgrims sailing through the night_, which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. H.W.F. Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, D.D. (1768-1842). He graduated from Harvard in 1787, entered the ministry and served the First Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts (Unitarian) from 1793 until his resignation in 1836. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1801 he printed a leaflet with a few hymns, which formed the basis for a larger collection of _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper, original and selected_, [edited] _by Thaddeus Mason Harris. D.D. Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, No. 5 Court Street, 1820_. A second edition was printed in 1821. This booklet contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont, _q.v._, Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, and others, none of them in use today. H.W.F.