In 1832, they removed to Skaneateles, New York, where Mr. Beauchamp went into the book business, to which seven years later he united a printing office and the publication of a weekly newspaper.

His daughter had free range of its carefully selected volumes and early acquired a familiarity with the best writers of the English language.

Before she entered her teenage years, she had become a regular contributor to a juvenile magazine, for which, at the age of fourteen, she furnished a serial running through half a volume.

What she published during that time appeared in religious papers under the pen-name "Filia Ecclesia," and some of these pieces found their way into contemporary collections of sacred poetry.

[4] Beauchamp wrote letters, poems, and stories for the Baldwinsville Gazette, Churchman, Family (Troy, New York), Gospel Messenger, Journal, Living Church, and Skaneateles Democrat.

was published by "M. E. Beauchamp" (New York general Protestant episcopal Sunday-school union and church book society, 1867, 92 pages).

The unfeeling conduct of the landlord; the grief of the family at having been dispossessed merely because the lease happened to expire; their parting with their friends, and so forth were each portrayed by "Mr. Beauchamp" with considerable pathos.