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Rh tucket island in 1659. He married in 1651 Elizabeth, daughter of Tristram Coffin, then of Newburj', Mass., afterward the chief magistrate, also one of the owners of Nantucket. Stephen^ Greenleaf was drowned while engaged in the honorable discharge of his military duty in the expedition against Port Royal in December, 1690. His son, Stei)hen,' known as the "great Indian fighter," was engaged in King Philip's War, and in the contest with the French and Indians in 1690 he conmianded a company at Wells, Me. Mrs. Sutherland's great-grand- father, Benjamin® Greenleaf, was a soldier in the Revolution.

Several of these progenitors were seafarers, and were well known in New England as master ship-builders. It is recorded that the original Greenleafs in England, ancestors of Edmund, were Huguenots (name in French Feuillevert), who had fled from France to escape religious persecution.

There is a tradition that one of the family, many generations back, while in France, married a Spanish Romany girl, or Gitana, and that the Gipsy blood now and then appears in her descendants. To this inheritance Mrs. Sutherland whimsically attributes her love of Bohemia and the freedom of outdoor life.

Noteworthy also is the part which the colonial Bakers took in the cause of liberty. Captain Joseph Baker, a surveyor, shared in the famous Lovewell fight in New Hampshire. His wife Hannah was the only daughter of the noted Captain John Lovewell, who was killed in the battle of Pigwacket, May 8, 1725. Mrs. Baker received a share in the lands awarded to the survivors and heirs of those engaged in the fight, and settled with her husband on this land, where the Baker homestead now stands, in the tow^n of Pembroke, N.H. Their son, Joseph Baker, Jr., was a soldier in the Revolution, and was on the Committee of Safety for the town of Bow, N.H.

As shown by family records and remembrances, supplementing the genealogy in the Essex Antiquariany, vol. ii., Mrs. Sutherland's maternal grandmother, Pamela Adams Greenleaf, was a daughter of Nathan Adams and his wife, Johanna Batchelder, and a descendant in the sixth generation of Robert Adams and his wife Eleanor, early settlers of Newbury, Mass. From Robert* the line continued through his son Abraham,^ who married Mary Pettingell; Abraham,' and his wife Anne, daughter of William and Anne (Sewall) Longfellow and niece of Judge Sewall ; and Henry^ and his first wife, Sarah Emery, who were the parents of Nathan* Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and Wiscasset, Me.

James Baker, of Boston, was a devoted anti-slavery Worker and a warm personal friend of Theodore Parker. He died when his daughter Evelyn was only three years of age. Her edu- cation was carefully looked after by her mother, her earliest training being received in the public schools. She was later placed in the quaint little "dame" school of Miss Rebecca Lincoln on Pinckney Street, where the old house is still standing. She next attended Miss Caroline Johnson's celebrated school on Ashburton Place, completing her education by two years' study in Geneva, Switzerland. She showed literary tastes w^hen but a child, by writing little rhymes and tales; and at the age of fifteen she was awarded a prize for an essay on "What is a Gentleman?" by Our Young Folks, now known as St. Nicholas. Since then her writings, verse or prose, have been much before the public, appearing in Puck, Life, the Cosmopolitan, and other magazines. In 1894, under the name of Dorothy Lundt, a nom de plume which she used for twenty years, she won one of the prizes offered by McClure’s Magazine by an army tale, "Diccon's Dog." Through this little product of her pen has come a happy experience. A noted novelist, at a reception shortly after the publication of the story, spoke of it in highest praise, not knowing that she was addressing the author herself. A confession followed, and the friendship thus begun between the two women has been lasting.

For many years Mrs. Sutherland was a writer on the staff of the Boston Transcript, from the autumn of 1887 contributing to its columns both book review^s and dramatic criticisms. Her success in the latter line is well know^n. She heartily attributes all credit for what she has accompIished in dramatic criticism to her training under Mr. Francis Jenks, for many