Lenox's fourth period of distinction belongs to the makers of modem history, the Now, all too close to be chronicled: a brilliant train of diplomatists, financiers, scientists, discoverers, seeking a dolce far niente after the exacting and complex winter of the city. The register books of the Berkshire Coffee House, Fanny Kemble's "Old Red Inn," and its successor of to-day, are classic in autographs, and become historical, sociological, or genealogical to the reader according to his penchant.

That is a curious silver thread which links one thousand acres in the heart of Lenox to a Latin inscription at Bunhill Fields, London, whereby Dorothy Q. came into landed possessions in the domain of Yokun, sachem.

It happened in this wise: Judge Edmund Quincy, when on a mission to the English government, fell a victim to a direful small-pox epidemic in London, and a memorial was erected to him in Bunhill Fields, the resting-place of Bunyan, and the Puritans; the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay granted to his heirs, for the great loss sustained in the death of their father while in the agency of the province, 1000 acres on the west side of the Housatonnuck River " between Stockbridge and a township laid out to the Honble. Jacob Wendell, Esq., and others." (Wendell's Town or Pittsfield.)

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