DUNNING, Annie Ketchuln, author, born in New York City, 2 November 1831. She is a daughter of Hiram Ketchum, a politician of some distinction; was educated in private schools in New York, and was for several years a pupil of John S. C. Abbott. She married Rev. Andrew Dunning, pastor of the Congregational Church in Thompson, Connecticut, and to supplement his small salary wrote her first, story, "Clementina's Mirror" (New York. 1857). She then became a writer for the Presbyterian board of publication, by which most of her subsequent volumes. about fifty in number, have been published. Most of her books have been written under the pseudonym of "Nellie Graham" Her books include "Whispers from Dreamland" (Philadelphia, 1861); "Mistaken" (New York, 1866); "First Glass of Wine" (Boston, 1866); " Blind Jessie" (1866); "Only a Penny" (Philadelphia, 1867); "Only a Child" (1868); "Miss Latimer's Meetings" (1869); " Fred Wilson" (1870); " Mary's New Friends" (1871); "A Story of Four Lives, or Mistaken" (Boston, 1871).