Printed by subscription and by request. All orders, criti cisms, and information bearing on the contents of this volume may be sent to John Wilson and Son, Printers, Cambridge, Mass. OR, ONE LAST GLIMPSE OF CHARLOTTE TEMPLE AND ELIZA WHARTON. A CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE AND LIFE. Caroline Wells (Heairy) BY MRS. DALL, 1 AUTHOR OF THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURT," "SUNSHINE," "In the old age black was not counted fair; Shakspere. CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 1875. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by JOHN WILSON AND SON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 828 R885c0 ། A FOSTER, John, clergyman, was DUIII TH Western (now Warren), Mass., April 19, 1763; son of Nathan and Betty (Lansford) Foster; and grandson of Nathan and Hannah (Standish)" Foster. He was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 71783, A.M., 1786. He was ordained the first pastor of the First Congregational society of Brighton, Nov. 1, 1784, his brother, the Rev. Joel Foster of New Salem, preaching the sermon. He resigned his pastorate, Oct. 31, 1827, and was succeeded by Daniel Austin. He was married in April, 1785, to Hannah, daughter of Grant Webster, and the author of "The Coquette; ort and by s History of Eliza Wharton," one of the earliest American novels. She died at Montreal, Canada, April 17, 1840, at the age of eighty-one years. Dr. Foster was one of the board of overseers ofza WharHarvard university and was connected withnercilessly Svarious literary, benevolent and religious socieild 'detract frties. He received from Harvard the degree ofnust challeA.M. in 1787 and that of D.D. in 1815. Twenty- olution of two of his discourses were published. He delivered the annual discourse before the Roxbury a a ad it as a rature nor if to every a charitable society, Sept. 16, 1799. A memorial1pted. window to the Rev. John Foster was placed in or whose Pthe new church in Brighton at its dedication in tails that 1894. He died in Brighton, Mass., Sept. 16, 1829. Hartford, although at times these might disguise the thread of the story. Again, the sympathies to which the story is addressed are limited. The members of the Association present at Hartford, during the last days in August, 1874; a few persons who have heard the manuscript read; and women with good memories in the rural homesteads up and down the Connecticut River,― may be all who will read it with interest. Why then should it be printed? For the same reason that Mr. Bigelow tells what he knows of the History of Franklin's manuscript. "The facts here set down if preserved may lead to the discovery of others which will complete the story." It is impossible to prove Eliza Wharton's marriage here; but it is surely worth while to show that those |