correspondence. That belonged to him and to her
alone. It is fortunate that no mere curiosity
hunter can feast his eyes or gossip over the words
these two people wrote to each other.

To Alice's husband Nathan's father gave the
powder horn she once spoke of as having seen
Nathan working upon in his customary intense
fashion, "doing that one thing as if there was
nothing else to be thought of at that time." Its
being given to Mr. Lawrence by Nathan's father,
to whom it must have been dear, proves that Mr.
Lawrence, as well as his wife, was a welcome addition
to the Hale family. Mr. Lawrence in turn
gave it to his son William, and it is now treasured
by the Connecticut Historical Society.

Mrs. Lawrence lived well into the nineteenth century,
dying in 1845, m ner eighty-ninth year. She
was thoroughly appreciated in Hartford, but it is from
the pen of a granddaughter, in a note written to the
Hon. I.W. Stuart, that the best description of Mrs.
Lawrence is given. Speaking of her grandmother
she said: "In person she was rather below the
middle height, with full, round figure, rather petite.
She possessed a mild, amiable countenance in
which was reflected that intelligent superiority
which distinguished her even in the days of Dwight,
Hopkins, and Barlow in Hartford--men who could

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