LYDIA HUNTLEY, who as Lydia H. Sigourney, became one of the most celebrated American authoresses of the first half of the nineteenth century, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, September 1st, 1791. Until her marriage in 1819 to Charles Sigourney she taught school, but when her husband’s fortune became impaired she attempted professional writing in the hope of helping him, and succeeded probably much beyond her expectations. She wrote essays, poems, sketches, and stories in great numbers to supply the demand she had created. Her work was helpful to her generation and frequently has a decided literary quality. She died at Hartford, Connecticut, June 10th, 1865. Among her books are “Letters to Young Ladies,” “Gleanings,” “The Man of Uz and Other Poems,” “Olive Leaves,” and “Lucy Howard’s Journal.”