Bret Harte's Daughter

A r:-nK artist in this city is Miss Jessamy Harte, the eldest daufíhter of Bret Harte, says a New York paper. She ís 22 years of age. and very pretty. Her mother was a Miss Griswold of California, a clever and gifted girl, with great hng-uistic and musical aecomplishments. Bret Harte's two eldest ehildren, both of them boys, wore born in San Francisco. The Hartes then moved to New York and it was there Jessamy and her sister Rthel were born. The family at present is living in Plainfleld, N. J., where for a number of years the married sister of Bret Harte has had a lovely old-fashioned residence. Miss Harte, when a very little girl. used to draw funny images and pictures oí queer ehildren on the margin of the leaves of all her books. She was a dreamer. She would sit for hours perfectly quiet when a little child, absorbed in thoughts all her own. Gf a su'den, she would ask for a pencil and paper. The "thoughts" would then appear thereon, in the shape of roses, jess-amine and English violeta, or else pictures of pretty ehildren, always made With wings.