...d 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 man or woman on the verge of a great moral lapse a marked copy of Whittier than any other book in our language. She goes on to d...