...en all arose, shook hands, and dispersed; and I remember it as one of the best meetings I ever attended. No one came nearer to Whittier in all good deeds or in private intimacy than the late Mrs. Mary B. Claflin , well known in Boston and Washington, in both of which cities she exercised profuse hospitality, during the public life of her husband, the Hon. William Claflin. No book yields such a store of priv...