late brother Theodore continues to reside. But of late years her home has been divided between the residence of her friends in New-York and that of her brother Charles, at Lenox, Berkshire county, Mass. A description of her parental home has been kindly communicated by the one, of all others, who could do it best:

"A comfortable rural mansion, some fifty feet square, built, without architectural adornments, for the modest wants of a country gentleman of sixty years since,' is here presented, faithfully, from a sketch made by one of his descendants, who lives still at the old homestead, enriching by her daily life its sacred associations.

"The view is taken from the meadow below the south entrance of the house, and admits a few only of the trees that on every other side shelter and obscure it, and under whose shadows the fourth generation from him who planted. them now plays.

"A small curve of the semicircular slope from 'Stockbridge plain,' on which the house stands, a piece of the rich alluvial meadow below it, and a glimpse of the Housatonic river, the living spirit of the valleys to which it gives its name, are the only objects that could be included within the narrow limits of this sketch.

"Would that the pen could supply the beauties excluded by the narrow space allotted to the pencil! and present to the mind's eye the deep-set valley in the very heart of which the old mansion stands,* on 'Stockbridge plain.' Thus the

"This is no figure of speech. The lot west of the house, known to the family as the Elizabeth lot,” (a name derived from the old Indian woman whose baptismal designation it was, and whose wigwam stood on it,) was originally