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374 letters, reports, and other documents, filling several large trunks and boxes. To examine and assort these was in itself no slight task. In her diary Miss Anthony wrote, " I am immersed to my ears, and feel almost discouraged. . . . The work before me is simply appalling." The pamphlet idea was soon outgrown. The undertaking progressed intermittently, different writers assisting, Miss Anthony devoting months and months of toil, as well as bearing the burden of the business responsibility, to the conclusion. The first volume was issued in May, 1881. The second volume was completed in April, 1882. The third appeared in December, 1886. These three were edited by Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Gage. Their preparation and publication were made possible by the legacy of Mrs. Eliza Jackson Eddy. The fourth volume, edited by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, completing the record of the century, was published at the beginning of 1003. In the account of the thirty-second annual Suffrage Convention, in Washington, D.C., in February, 1900, mention is made of Miss Anthony's report as a delegate to the International Congress of Women in London in 1899 and her description of the reception of the Congress by the Queen at Windsor Castle. There is also an interesting account of the notable celebration of Miss Anthony's eightieth birthday.

As we have no warrant for here producing any considerable portion of the contents of Mrs. Harper's " Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony," readily as its bright paragraphs lend themselves to quotation, the foregoing glances and glimpses must suffice to represent that veteran reformer in these pages. In conclusion it may be remarked that the biography above named leaves Miss Anthony where it found her—at the foot of Old Greylock: here, at the ancestral homestead, on the 29th of July, 1897, she attended, as guest of honor, the annual meeting of the Berkshire Historical Society, and on the following day, with a numerous band of kinsfolk and friends, the Anthony Reunion, a notable gatiiering on their native heath of many loyal American citizens, not a few of them true-born sons and daughters of New England. M. H. G. ARRIET AMANDA CHAMBERLIN, a Past President of Willard C. Kinsley Woman's Relief Corps, No. 21, of Somerville, Mass., was born in Freeman, Me., October 9, 1837, daughter of Bartholomew and Mary (Tarr) Clayton. Her parents were from Farmingtun, Me. Her paternal grandfather, John Clayton, a native of Manchester, England, came to America as a soldier in the British army, and .served under General Burgoyne in 1777. He received his discharge in September, 1783, and not long after settled in Augusta, then a part of Hallowell, Me. About the year 1787 he married Sally Austin. Bartholomew, above named, was their seventh child. Two sons of John Clayton served on the American side in the War of 1812, and twenty-three of his descendants fought for the Union in the Civil War, 1861-65.

Harriet A., daughter of Bartholomew Clayton and his wife Mary, was educated in the l^ublic schools of Freeman and the academy in Farmington. After completing her course of study she taught school for two years in Maine, and then came to Massachusetts.

On January 31, 1862, she was married to Russell Topliffe Chamberlin, a soldier, of the Civil War, who enlisted from Somerville in 1862 in Company B, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He is a member of Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, G. A. R., of Somerville, also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and other organizations.

Edmund Russell Chamberlin, born in 1863, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin, died in 1880. They have one daughter, Mary Emily, who was born July 28, I869. She was married February 27, 1889, to William Nelson Moore, and has since resided in Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two daughters: Ruth, born April 28, I890; and Doris, born September 15, 1893.

Mrs. Chamberlin has been a constant worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union since its organization, and has attended its State conventions as a delegate. Nearly forty years ago she imited with the Sons of Temperance, and is a Past Worthy Patriarch of Clarendon Division, of West Soiuerville. She has