Mrs. Edwards was a near relative of President Edwards of _Yale_, also I think, _sister in law_ of the noted _Judge Reeve_, to whose unremitting kindness and sympathy she owed many of the pleasures of her declining years. Judge Reeve seldom allowed a week to pass without visiting this venerated friend; and his visits were counted among the bright and sunny spots in her life. She was a confirmed invalid for many years. This family were warm friends and admirers of Miss Pierce. They were fellow workers in the welfare and education of two Hawaian boys, “Hoobokiah” and “Hope” by name who were at the mission school at Cornwall. These youths were occasional visitors and were much petted and noticed: I think Hoobokiah died before returning to his native land. I can at this day recall his face. Very sincerely yours, MRS. MARY A. HUNT. REMINISCENCES OF MISS FANNY LORD. November 11, 1899. There was a house on North St. about where Mrs. M’Laughlin now lives, with a long sloping roof called at that time “a lean-to.” Some of Miss Pierce’s pupils boarded there with the family of Edwards[69] who occupied it. They were so strict that the law students called it “_the convent_.” There were two pupils Margaret Hopkins and Elizabeth Sheldon.[70] The former went with some of her friends to spend the evening at “aunt Bull’s” on the south side of Prospect St. where Mr. MacMartin lives. A law student of the party put back the hands of the clock so that when one of the number took Margaret back to Miss Pierce’s where she boarded, the house was quite shut up. After knocking Miss Pierce came to the door in night-cap and gown, candle in hand! Some time after this occurrence, during her wedding journey, Margaret and her bridegroom met the young man, her escort, and they all had much amusement over their reminiscences of the encounter. After the experience related in Mr. Cutler’s diary of the jilting of one of the Litchfield girls by one of the law students parents were even more careful as to any attentions paid to their daughters. Sometimes they even went so far that if a young man called three times on one of them they would ask his “intentions.” Mr. Lord built a bowling alley on the west side of the Prospect Hill road for the benefit of the pupils of both schools. Miss Pierce used to say to one of the girls, “Mary Goodwin, I see inbred sin on your back,” and said it so often that on entering the school room one morning there was a charcoal sketch fastened up on the wall of Miss Pierce herself with “inbred sin on _her_ back!”