I have been unable to find much of interest to add to your labor of love, but can say that the house which the Misses Sarah and Mary Pierce occupied and which was torn down by Mrs. Underwood in 1896, was built in the year 1800. The “Litchfield Female Academy,” a later building, which stood north of their house was erected in 1827 by a stock company incorporated in that year. This latter building was removed to the Beecher Lot, corner of North and Prospect Streets, prior to 1860, and was occupied there by the boys’ school of the late Rev. James Richards D.D., under the name of “Elm Park Collegiate Institute” for some years. Mr. Henry R. Jones of Brooklyn, N. Y. converted it into a dwelling house after he purchased that corner about 1882; the “Beecher Homestead” building having previously been purchased by Dr. Henry W. Buel, and removed to “Spring Hill,” about 1872 where it now forms a part of his group of buildings. 1831–1833. SCHOOL BILL. The following bill illustrates both the prices for tuition in 1831, and the custom of taking merchandise instead of money in the days when money was scarce. Also the amount contributed by each scholar toward the cost of the exhibition[74] usually held at the close of the term. John Grant To J. P. Brace Dr. Tuition $10. School expenses „42 ———————— $10„42 ——————— Exhibition tax „12½ ——————— 10„54½ Received of Mrs. H. Grant _wood_ 9 3 ————— Due 1—51 Litchfield April 19^{th} 1831 Rec’d payment L. E. BRACE Signed by Mrs. Brace. NEW YORK, Tuesday, Jan’y 27th, (1831, ’32 or 33.) MY DEAR MISS PIERCE: Your kindness and that of all your family towards me and mine last summer, induces me to think a letter from me would not be unacceptable.