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Show Ruth Charlotte Dana Dies in Boston. Miss Ruth Charlotte Dana, a daughter daugh-ter of Richard H. Dana, poet and essayist, es-sayist, and a sister of Richard H. Dana, author of "Two Years Befo e the Mast," died on Sept. 23, at Hotel Thorndike, where she has resided within with-in recent ysars. Miss Dana was born in Camb.idsa, Feb. 23. 1S14. She was carefully educated, edu-cated, and had the further mental development de-velopment which comes of association with the finest intellects of one's time and years of foreign travel. Her gift for music, vocal and instrumental, was marked. Col. Thomas Wrentworth Hifj-ginson, Hifj-ginson, in one of his brilliant sketche? of a brilliant social epoch in Boston, speaks of Miss Charlotte Dana's exquisite ex-quisite rendering of Moore's melodies. As j-ears went by she Identified herself with all important movements for thti advancement of music and art in Boston Bos-ton and Cambridge, and was a coT-tant attendant at the early Harvard symphonies. sym-phonies. Miss Dana came into the Cat'ioilc Church in Bishop Fitzpatrlck's time, during that remarkable influx of members mem-bers of the most distinguished of the old families of Boston. |