...by the daughter of a Puritan clergyman, a woman who was also a minister's wife. She had what Dr. Holmes called Brahmin blood, for she probably descended, in the sixth generation, from the sister of Chaucer the poet, an ancestress described in the English family tree as Caterina, soror Galfridi Chaucer, celeberrimi poetae Anglicani. This descendant of Caterina lived in Salem, Massachusetts, du...