a delicate girl whom the
writer loved. The tradition in the Winslow family is that Anna Green
Winslow died of consumption at Marshfield in the fall of 1779. There
is no town or church record of her death, no known grave or
headstone to mark her last resting-place. And to us she is not dead,
but lives and speaks--always a loving, endearing little child; not
so passionate and gifted and rare a creature as that star among
children--Marjorie Fleming--but a natural and homely little flower
of New England life; fated never to grow old or feeble or dull or
sad, but to live forever and laugh in the glamour of eternal happy
youth through the few pages of her time-stained diary._

_Alice Morse Earle._

_Brooklyn Heights, September, 1894._

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
ANNA GREEN WINSLOW.
From miniature now owned by Miss Elizabeth C. Trott,
Niagara Falls, N.Y. _Frontispiece._

FACSIMILE OF WRITING OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW.
From original diary 1

WEDDING PARTY IN BOSTON IN 1756.
From tapestry now owned by American Antiquarian Society 20

GENERAL JOSHUA WINSLOW.
From miniature painted by Copley, 1755, and now owned by
Mrs. John F. Lindsey, Yorkville, S.C. 34

EBENEZER STORER.
From portrait painted by Copley, now owned by
Mrs. Lewis C. Popham, Scarsdale, N.Y. 45

HANNAH GREEN STORER.
From portrait painted by Copley, now owned by
Mrs. Lewis C. Popham, Scarsdale, N.Y. 65

CUT-PAPER PICTURE.
Cut by Mrs. Sarah Winslow Deming, now owned by
James F. Trott, Esq., Niagara Falls, N.Y. 74

[Transcriber's Note:
In this transcription of Anna Green Winslow's handwriting,
line breaks follow the original. The postscript ("N.B.")
is in smaller writing, almost surrounding the signature.]

[Handwriting:]

I hope aunt wont let me
wear the black hatt with the red Dominie--for the
people will ask me what I have got to sell as I
go along street if I do. or, how the folk at Newgui
nie do? Dear mamma, you dont know the fation
here--I beg to look like other folk. You dont kno
what a stir would be made in Sudbury Street
were I to make my appearance there in my red Domi
n