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Tributes by the PRESIDENT :

to Henry G. Denny

182

to John E. Sanford

183

to Solomon Lincoln

to David Masson, an Honorary Member .

184

Announcement of the deaths of Corresponding Members, John

Marshall Brown, John A. Doyle, and Sir Spencer Walpole 185

Tribute by the PRESIDENT to Sir Spencer Walpole

186

Tribute to Henry G. Denny, by EDWARD E. HALE

186

Tribute to Solomon Lincoln, by John D. LONG

189

Tribute to David Masson, by BARRETT WENDELL

193

Tribute to John Andrew Doyle, by EDWARD CHANNING

196

Tribute to Sir Spencer Walpole, by JAMES F. RHODES.

198

Paper by ALBERT MATTHEWS on Documents in a File of the

Boston News-Letter (1711-1715) in the Boston Athenæum 204

Paper by M. A. DEWOLFE HowE on More Letters of William

Vassall, 1784, 1785

210

Paper by F. B. SANBORN on The Early History of Kansas,

1854–1861

219

Remarks by SAMUEL A. GREEN on the gift by Josephi and

Susanna Willard of a silhouette of Joseph Willard, Presi-

dent of Harvard University, 1781-1804 .

229

Remarks by SAMUEL A. Green on the gift by Mrs. J. A. Swan

of two water-color views of Trinity Church, Summer Street,

Boston

230

Memorandum by GRENVILLE H. Norcross on an extract from

Haldimand's diary, 1786, relative to a strike among car-

penters at New York in 1781

230

House Committee appointed.

231

DECEMBER MEETING, 1907.

Remarks by BARRETT WENDELL in presenting from Mrs. C. V.

Jamison some papers relating to a characteristic episode

in the life of Longfellow

Paper by M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE on the bust of George

Bancroft, and the curious history of its discovery

232

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Paper by WILLIAM B. WEEDEN on Early Oriental Commerce in

Providence

236

Memoir of Solomon Lincoln, by John D. LONG

279

Memoir of Peleg Whitman Chandler, by EDWARD STANWOOD. 281

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JANUARY MEETING, 1908.

Resident Member elected, Frederic Winthrop .

291

Corresponding Member elected, John Bagnell Bury

291

Honorary Member elected, Henry Adams

291

New draft by CHARLES C. SMITH of a Short Account of the

Society

291

Mention of a paper read by ROGER B. MERRIMAN on a neglected

phase of Queen Elizabeth's treatment of her Catholic sub-

jects in England

295

Remarks by JAMES F. HUNNEWELL in giving a large photo-

graphic likeness of Richard Frothingham, Treasurer of

the Society from 1847 to 1877

295

Paper by JAMES F. HUNNEWELL on Three Early Washington

Monuments

296

Paper by Albert Matthews on A Proposal for the Enlarge-

ment of University Learning in New England, 1658–1660 301

Memoir of Henry Gardner Denny, by SAMUEL S. SHAW 310

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1908.

315

315

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Resident Member elected, Robert Samuel Rantoul

Corresponding Member elected, Rafael Altamira y Crevea

Honorary Membership of the Society, and the election of Henry

Adams, by the PRESIDENT

Tribute by the PRESIDENT to Edward Henry Strobel

Tribute to Mr. Strobel by ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE .

Paper by President Adams on President Lincoln's Offer of a

Military Command to Garibaldi in 1861 . .

Paper by Josiah P. Quincy in presenting papers relating to

the execution of John Brown

315

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Second Paper, by F. B. SANBORN, on The Early History of

Kansas, 1854-1861

Letters between Edward Everett and John McLean, 1828,

relating to the use of patronage in elections and the princi-

ples which should control the distribution of public office,

communicated by WORTHINGTON C. FORD

MARCH MEETING, 1908.

Recent additions to the series of portraits of Treasurers of the

Society reported by the Cabinet-Keeper

394

Resident Member elected, George Lyman Kittredge

394

Corresponding Member elected, James Wilberforce Longley . 394

Committees appointed : to nominate officers; to examine the

Treasurer's accounts; and to examine the Library and

Cabinet

394

Revision of the By-Laws reported

394

Tribute by the PRESIDENT to Charles Henry Dalton

394

Tribute to Edward Gaylord Bourne, by JAMES FORD RHODES 399

Paper by SAMUEL A. GREEN on a forged letter said to have been

written by Cotton Mather in 1682 to John Higginson . 407

Remarks by ALBERT BUSHNELL Hart on the southern question

in the light of a recent visit to remote parts of the South 409

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ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL, 1908.

Resident Member elected, Charles Pelham Greenough .

Corresponding Member elected, Henry Morse Stephens

Report of the Council

Report of the Treasurer .

Report of the Auditing Committee

Report of the Librarian .

Report of the Cabinet-Keeper .

Report of the Committee on the Library and Cabinet

Officers elected

Paper by JAMES DE NORMANDIE on Modernism

412

412

412

417

421

421

426

429

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430

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Letters of Harrison Gray to Harrison Gray Otis, 1787, relative

to regaining his confiscated estate, communicated by

GRENVILLE H. NORCROSS
By-Laws revised and adopted, new code

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435
439

MAY MEETING, 1908.

450

450

House Committee appointed .
Announcement of the publication of the late Judge Mellen

Chamberlain's History of Chelsea ; and of a new edition
of the Short Account of the Society, with the revised By-

Laws and a complete list of officers and members

Invitation from the Société Historique Franco-Américaine to

attend a meeting in connection with the Quebec tercenten-

ary, and the appointment of Barrett Wendell to represent

the Society

Remarks by William R. THAYER on The Centenary of Lincoln

and Darwin

Third and concluding Paper by F. B. SANBORN on The Early

History of Kansas, 1854-1861

Second Paper by James DENORMANDIE on Modernism

450

451

452

499

JUNE MEETING, 1908.

508

Memorandum by the Treasurer relative to the bequest of

Mellen Chamberlain, and the publication of his History of

Chelsea, submitted by the PRESIDENT for the Council .

Papers, 1859, 1860, given by Mrs. William B. Rogers relative

to the Harper's Ferry affair of October, 1859, and the

execution of John Brown

Account by BARRETT WENDELL of his presence as delegate of

the Historical Society at the dinner of the Société His-

torique Franco-Américaine on May 30

Third and concluding Paper by JAMES DENORMANDIE on

Modernism

509

518

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Remarks by EDWIN D. Mead in protest against the proposed

change of the name of Maverick Square, East Boston 527

Remarks by President Adams on the disregard of historical

association in the changes of names of streets and squares

in Boston, and the desirability of a radical measure of reform 529

Paper by President Adams on the visits of Miles Standish, in

1621 and 1623, to Boston Harbor, and the reprint of a

paper on Thompson's Island and Squantum by Elizabeth

Taylor Horton.

532