...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 private anecdotes about Whittier as her little work, Personal Recollections of John G. Whittier. Mrs. Claflin quotes one adviser, who said I would rather give a m...