Person Name: C. M. P. Author of "O shadow in a sultry land!" in Hymns of the Ages (3rd series) Packard, C. M., is the author of "O shadow in the sultry land," in the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and the Hymn [& Tune] Book, &c, Boston, U. S., 1868.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Charlotte Mellen Packard