I did not stay long at Litchfield, as I was a delicate girl, and it was so very cold my Mother was afraid to have me stay. I came home in the Autumn, I remember when D^r Beecher’s wife died. Her name was Roxana Foote; and I heard D^r Beecher preach her funeral sermon, standing in the little tub pulpit, while her coffin stood below it. Miss Pierce had a nephew, John Pierce Brace, who lived, I think, next door to Miss Pierce’s, and he taught _every day_ in the school. Miss Mary Pierce did not teach; _only Miss Sarah_, She was of medium height, rather fine looking and dignified, and very religious. We had school every day; only, it seems to me that on Wednesday and Saturday we had a half-holiday. Among the pupils was a Miss Catherine L. Webb, from Cooperstown, (sister of James Watson Webb)—two Misses Farnham from Massachusetts—Miss Phebe Conklin from Poughkeepsie—two Misses Sanford from Jamestown (N. Y.)—and Miss Emmeline Beebe from Connecticut. (She was the one who told Miss Pierce she could not study because the girls kept up such a “cessation” through the room.) There was also a Miss Caroline Delafield, who lived at her Uncle’s, Gen’l Tallmadge’s,[41] and came to certain recitations only. Old Grove Catlin kept the Hotel in Litchfield, and had a daughter Flora, who was quite a belle. The law students used to quiz him about his daughter’s popularity, and he said, “Yes, my daughter Flora is assassinated most every night” (meaning _serenaded_)—He also said he wore his old fashioned watch seal “for the antipathy of the thing,” (meaning _antiquity_)—D^r Beecher had two colored servants named Zillah and Priscilla—I remember their grinding the coffee for breakfast. There was a large sink in the kitchen, and a couple of basins, and we had to go there to wash—It was the only place—so of course we could not take much of a bath—which was a great trial to me. While I was at D^r Beecher’s, the Rev. Mr. Nettleton, the revivalist, came to visit him, and I remember their drinking cider and pearlash with their breakfast. CAROLINE CHESTER—HER DIARY—EXTRACTS FROM HER COMMONPLACE BOOK. Caroline Chester was born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1801, married John Knickerbocker, 1824, and died at Troy, New York, 1870. She was fifteen years old when she attended the school. DIARY.