pas-de-deux and minuet, from old Doctor Shaffer, who was at the time second violin of the Boston Theatre, as well as authority in the correct methods of bowing and curtesying. In a letter dated December 10, 19—, he alludes to a copy of Charlotte Temple, which he had recently found in a bookstall in New York.
He says: the story had long been a familiar one, and I in common with others of many times my age and judgment, had lingered before the slab that bears her name in the graveyard of old Trinity, and sometimes laid a flower on it for sympathy's sake, as I have done many times since.
On my return home, I showed the little book to my mother, and as she held it in her hands and read a word here and there, she, too, began to journey backward to her school days, and asked my father to bring out her treasure chest, and from it she took her school relics—a tattered ribbon watch-guard fastened by a flat gold buckle that Mrs. Rowson had given her as a reward for good conduct, and a package
