PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

TH

OCTOBER MEETING, 1923.

HE stated meeting was held on Thursday, the 11th instant, at three o'clock, P.M.; the President, Mr. LODGE, in the chair.

The President announced that he had just received word of the death of our associate Mr. Stanwood, Recording Secretary, and Mr. Tuttle acted as Recording Secretary, pro tempore. The record of the June meeting was approved without being read.

The President announced the appointment by the Council, in accordance with the By-Laws, of Roger Bigelow Merriman as Corresponding Secretary until the next Annual Meeting. The Librarian reported the following accessions:

From Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs, additions to the Kingsmill Marrs Collection, including notes left by the late Mr. Marrs on the Fitz-Stephens families and Kingsmill and connections of England.

From Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, of Washington, D. C., papers of William Everett, 1858-1910.

From Charles S. French, of Wellesley, the diary of Charles E. French, of Boston, 1835 to 1903, in nineteen volumes.

From Charles E. Goodspeed, the votes of February 21, and March 8, 1804, to ordain Rev. Daniel Loring as Minister of the Church of Christ in Foxboro.

From Miss Edith Tracy Crehore, Crehore papers, 1717-1791. From Walter Gilman Page, Page family papers, 1804 to 1923. From Charles H. Fowle, of Williamstown, some papers relating to the Provident Institution for Savings, 1816-1873.

From James B. Wilbur, of Manchester, Vt., copies of Israel Keith papers, 1760-1803.

From Grenville H. Norcross, a diary of his father, Otis Norcross, 1859 to July, 1882.

By purchase, a number of Massachusetts tax warrants on the towns of Middleton, Reading and Topsfield, Mass., 1722-1783; Francis, Peabody papers of Middleton, 1735-1794; Towne papers relating to Topsfield, Mass., 1742-1855; account book of Nathaniel Bragg of Wrentham, 1741-1784; account book of John Pearl, Jr., and Mehitable, 1792-1825, of Boxford, and George Pearl, 1826-1845; several Groton deeds and plans, 1713-1818; also a large collection of papers relating to Northampton, Mass., 1721-1895, important for the period of the Revolution and for the many papers in the writing of Joseph Hawley.

By deposit, from Mrs. Helen Richards (Healy) French, letters of Daniel Webster to John P. Healy, her grandfather, 1818-1886. By deposit, from Richard Henry Dana, a large collection of Dana family papers.

By deposit, from Mrs. John Torrey Linzee, of letters of Lord Hood, 1771, 1772, of Lord Hood and the Earl of Sandwich to Capt. John Linzee, 1788-1789, of Capt. John Linzee, 1788, Samuel Hood Linzee, 1794 to 1818, and a diary of Mrs. Nancy Linzee, 1808-1810.

The Cabinet-Keeper reported the following accessions:

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From Frank W. Bayley, a framed photograph of a drawing made by John Singer Sargent in 1920, of William Roscoe Thayer. From Arthur P. Rugg, a photostat copy of a woodcut of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw which appeared in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion for September 13, 1851.

From William V. Kellen, the eleventh medal of the Circle of Friends of the Medallion for 1914 struck in memory of Joan of Arc, designed by Allen G. Newman; and the twelfth medal, 1915, struck in honor of New Netherland, the good ship which brought the first substantial reinforcement of settlers to that colony in 1623, designed by Paul Manship.

From Grenville H. Norcross, views in Mount Auburn Cemetery, 1884; and 230 coins.

From Henry Cabot Lodge, engravings of Oliver Cromwell, Alexander Pope, Homer, Chaucer, and Sir Francis Bacon.

From Samuel F. Batchelder, a blue print of the measured architect's plan of the organ loft in Christ Church, Cambridge, designed by Peter Harrison in 1759, and built in 1761 by Samuel May, of Boston.

From Dr. J. Collins Warren, a bronze relief of Martin Brimmer, and a Lincoln-Johnson envelope, and several pieces of fractional currency.

From Horace L. Wheeler, the medal of the golden anniversary of St. Joseph's Total Abstinence Society of Boston.

From Charles A. Brown, of Lowell, an engraving, colored, of "The Countess of D-h-ff," and "Nauticus."

From Malcolm Storer, ten medals.

From the Bostonian Society, a small engraved portrait of Thomas Hollis, published by J. Sewell.

From Delano Wight, a photograph of L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior in President Cleveland's Cabinet, and eleven other photographs.

The President announced the appointment of the following delegates to the Parkman Centenary at Montreal on November 13, 1923: The French Ambassador, M. Jusserand, Prof. Bliss Perry, Arthur Lord, William V. Kellen, Dr. Charles L. Nichols, James B. Wilbur, and Prof. George M. Wrong.

CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT.

The President then said:

The Massachusetts Historical Society is indeed fortunate in having the opportunity and the rare privilege of celebrating within a year the fiftieth anniversary of the election to membership of two of our distinguished associates. Last January we had the pleasure of commemorating the attainment by Mr. Warren of fifty years of membership and today we have the happiness to be able to repeat this most agreeable ceremony in honor of President Eliot. To him we offer our most heartfelt good wishes together with every hope for many years of health and strength, abundant in the continued service of which he has already rendered so much to his time, his country and his fellowmen. We one and all congratulate ourselves that we have the honor and happiness conferred upon us by his presence here today.

The Massachusetts Historical Society, tried by the American standard, is a very old Society, which in its career, now well advanced into its second century, has we like to think rendered substantial service to the study of history and to