Mrs. Thompson often spoke of Miss Pierce and Mr. Brace. She was very young when she entered the school and must have been quite homesick at first. After she had been there sometime she was one day surprised to find her room mate engaged in making the bed, and on learning that the pupils were expected to keep their rooms in order exclaimed: “Why didn’t you tell me?” “Because,” replied her kind-hearted companion, who was an older girl, “I knew that you were not accustomed to it!” She must have boarded later at Dr. Sheldon’s, for she spoke of learning her lessons with Miss Julia Gould, and in the darkening twilight returning across the street to Dr. Sheldon’s (or Miss Lucy Sheldon’s?) while the good Judge, standing in his doorway watched the little figure safely over. Juliana MacLachlan, my father’s mother, had been a pupil in the school at an earlier date. She was a beautiful girl and a belle with the law students. When but fifteen years old she married David Gardiner of East Hampton, Long Island. REMINISCENCES OF MRS. A. S. FARNAM. [Illustration: PL. LVII.—LITCHFIELD COSTUME OF ABOUT 1827 Black crape bonnet made for his widow to wear at the funeral of Mr. Cheney ] I went to Litchfield in the Spring of 1830. Mr. Brace was at the head of the school, but Miss Pierce came into the school every morning and taught the class in Universal History which was a book of her own compiling, and she used often to give the girls talks.... I think of her as a little old lady active and bright; somehow I have a more distinct recollection of her half-brother and sister who lived with her; I think Miss Mary kept the house; I don’t remember any assistant teachers at all; I do remember three or four boys who attended the school because there was no boys’ school in town; one was Willie Jones, the son of Parson Jones as he was called; another was son of Dr. Buel on North Street, the same who had the sanitarium at a later day; another was George Seymour, a nephew of Origen Seymour; I think his father was dead; there was a young lad by the name of Hull that I did not know as well; a sister of young Buel’s mother, Miss Wadhams from Goshen, was in school for quite a time; Hannah Beach also was from Goshen; her father married Miss Lucy Sheldon.... I think most of the families took a few boarders; there were four sisters named Rankin from Newark. It seems strange, but I cannot recall the names of the girls who boarded at Mrs. Lord’s with me excepting a Miss Clark; we all occupied the rooms in the third story, the best rooms of the house were rented to young gentlemen who were law students.... There were two or three girls who boarded at the Parmalees’ on South Street; one was a Miss Larned from Maryland; another was from New London.... REMINISCENCES OF MISS ESTHER H. THOMPSON. LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT, December 12, 1896.