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Rh ezor Adams, whose wife was Annie Boylston, sister to Susanna.

The wife of Joseph3 Adams and mother of Captain Ebenezer4 and Deacon John4 aforesaid was Hannah Bass, daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass and grand-daughter of John Alden and his wife Priscilla. Sure enough, then, is Annie Fields, poet and friend of poets, a "Mayflower" descendant.

Mrs. Fields's maternal grandparents were Captain John and Sarah (May) Holland, the grandfather a Boston merchant and ship-owner. The grandmother was a daughter of Samuel5 and Abigail (Williams) May. She was sister of Joseph6 May, whose daughter Abigail7 married Amos Bronson Alcott and was the mother of Louise May Alcott; and sister to Joseph6 May's brother Samuel, who married Mary Goddard and was the father of Abby W. May of honored memory.

For years Mrs. James T. Fields has been one of the leading workers in the A.s.sociated Charities of Boston, in which organization she has served as vice-president and director, and as corresponding secretary of District No. 7, giving much time and energy to the study of social and economic (|uestions and the practical work of befriending the poor.

The writings of Mrs. Fields betray a cultivated mind, a wide acquaintance and loving intimacy with books and their producers, and possess a literary and personal flavor of unfailing charm. It may be noted in passing that one of the teachers by whose instructions she profited in her youth was George B. Emerson, who for a number of years kept an excellent private school in Boston. Mrs. Fields has been a contributor to the Atlantic, Harper's, the Century, and other magazines. Her first book of poems, "Under the Olive," was followed by a memoir of her husband, entitled "James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, with Unpublished Fragments and Tributes of Men and Women of Letters," 1881; "How to help the Poor," 1883; "Whittier: Notes of his Life and Friendships," 1893: "A Shelf of Old Books," 1894: "The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems," 1895; "Authors and Friends," 1896; "Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe," 1897; "Hawthorne," in the Beacon Biographies, 1899; "Orpheus, a Masque," 1899.

Early in the present year, 1904, after an interim of impaired health and cessation of literary activity, appeared from the pen of Mrs. Fields a little volume on Charles Dudley Warner, in the Contemporary Men of Letters Series. What was said by a competent critic of her "Authors and Friends" may here be cited as applicable to this attractive monograph of later date:—

"It is because Mrs. Fields herself was born just early and just late enough, and through circumstance and native endowment came into the closest intimacy and sympathy with the men and women whose names shine forth most clearly in our century's record of letters, that her book has an unconunon charm and value." {{right|{{smaller|M. H. G.}}

{{di|G}}EORGIA ABBIE RUSSELL, Agent for the Massachusetts State Board of Prison Conmiissioners, has for the past six years had charge of the work of aiding discharged female prisoners. She is a daughter of George Woodliury and Abigail (Bunker) Russell. When she was two weeks old, her mother died, and her father, a few months later, went to California, leaving her in charge of Benjamin Bunker, an uncle, whose wife, Elizabeth Ober Burnham, was her mother's cousin.

George Woodbury Russell, her father, who was born in Salem, Mass., and was for many years a sea captain, died in California when she was seven years old. His ancestors were men of prominence in the army and navy, and the family was noted for its charitable deeds. Miss Russell remembers accompanying her aunt and grandmother to homes of the sick and afflicted, and she was often sent on errands of mercy. Mrs. Abigail Bunker Russell, the mother above named, was born in Beverly, Mass. She also was descended from a family interested in charitable works. Miss Russell's grandfather Bunker was a gunner in the navy during the Revolution, and her great-grandfather was' the owner of the farm in Charlestown on which Bunker