TH JUNE MEETING HE stated meeting of the Society was held in the Dowse Library on Thursday, 12 June, at three o'clock in the afternoon, First Vice-President LORD in the chair. The record of the May Meeting was read and approved. The Librarian reported the following accessions: From Mrs. Frederick L. Gay, through Mr. John H. Edmonds, Zerubbabel Endecott's manuscript book of remedies, 1677; original letters and transcripts, made for Mr. Gay, of Sedgwick and Leverett papers on the expedition against the Dutch at Manhattoes, 1654, the Port Royal expedition of 1654-55, the taking of French forts in America, and the Jamaica expedition, 1655-56; also an account of Acadia, and copies of letters of Count d'Estrades, 1662. From Hon. Percival P. Baxter, of Maine, a volume of transcripts of documents relating to the provisions under the will of the late James Phinney Baxter, a Corresponding Member of the Society, for the erection of "A New England Pantheon" to "commemorate the Lives and Deeds of the Founders of New England.” From Mrs. Artemas Ward Lamson, of Dedham, a folio manuscript volume, 1775-1777, containing the orderly book of Gen. Artemas Ward, kept by his secretary, Joseph Ward, from April 20, 1775, to March 20, 1777, general orders, July 29, 1775, to April 4, 1776, and his letter book, April 6, 1776, to March 3, 1777. From Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, further valuable additions to the papers of the Sedgwick family, 1783 to 1851, containing account-books, journals and letter-books of Theodore Sedgwick, and Theodore Sedgwick, Jr. From James B. Wilbur, a letter of James Bowdoin to Benjamin Lincoln, Boston, February 28, 1787, on Shays' Rebellion. From Eugene E. Prussing, a photographic copy of George Washington's first Report as President of the Potomac Company, Alexandria, August 7, 1786. From George Simpson Eddy, of New York, a photostat copy of John Temple's letter to Franklin, Amsterdam July 26, 1781 and of two letters of Franklin to Washington, and to Jefferson, Passy, May 6, 1782, introducing George Grieve, the translator of From Wilberforce Eames, a photostat copy of an elegiac poem on the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Cabinet-Keeper reported the following accessions: From Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, and Miss Margaret Norton, an engraving by St. Memin, of Theodore Sedgwick, Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; and the dress (court) sword and hat of Theodore Sedgwick (1811-1859) when Secretary of Legation in France, 1833-1835, Edward Livingston being the Minister. From George Simpson Eddy, photographs of Franklin portraits by Anne-Rosalie Filleul (née Bocquet) about the year 1778; by Duplessis in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and another, 1783, in the New York Public Library; by Joseph Wright, 1782, in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D. C., and of a marble bust of Franklin by Houdon, 1778, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the Concord Art Association, a bronze copy of its Medal of Honor. From John H. Edmonds, daguerreotypes of Mary Louise Shaw (1844-1874) daughter of Robert Gould Shaw (1815-1853); and Florence Lyman, taken about 1855. From Mr. Norcross, a piece of the Washington Elm, Cambridge, some coins and badges. From Miss McKenna, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, a gold Phi Beta Kappa key, Harvard Chapter, 1878. From the Town of Grafton, its service medal in the World War. From Miss Elizabeth W. Burnap, of Baltimore, an engraved portrait of Gov. John Brooks, her great uncle; and a photograph of his grandson, George Hill Stuart, late Queen's Counsel of Quebec. The Corresponding Secretary reported that a letter had been received from Henry Perceval Biggar, of Toronto, accepting corresponding membership. Mr. FORD called attention to the portrait bust of our Honorary Member, Henri Pirenne, on the Belgian Medal given at the May meeting. Clarence Saunders Brigham, of Worcester, was elected a Resident Member of the Society. Dr. ROBERT M. LAWRENCE read a paper on "Train Bands, and early Military Training in Massachusetts." Mr. WOLKINS read a paper on "Was Daniel Malcom's Resistance justified?"- to be printed in the next volume of Proceedings. Mr. WINSLOW WARREN told of a recent visit to Jefferson's house at Monticello, Virginia. DR. SHATTUCK read the following letter of GEORGE C. SHATTUCK TO GEORGE C. SHATTUCK, JR. BOSTON, July 18, 1852. MY SON,After 9 o'c[lock] last evening I was called to Brighton. When I arrived Miss Whitney had been dead some half hour. Her youngest sister, Frances who was at the Ursuline convent at Charlestown when it was burnt, was inconsolable. exclaimed, "Would that I could have died for her!" She The ranks of the city have been thinned off by the heat. A heated atmosphere does not interrupt the labors of the apostles of charity. Yesterday I was waited on for the payment of Fifty Dollars (subscription) for Brackett's group. Deacon Grant urged a modest request that I would pay one thousand dollars toward the fund for the support of aged indigent females. The glorious opportunity of course I let pass unimproved. I told the Deacon I could not afford to keep such high company. The same day I was addressed by a champion of the universal brotherhood of man in behalf of the thirty thousand Africans fled from the United States to Canada, for liberty, who were represented in a suffering condition. I enquired of the PHILANTHROPIST if they were incapable of taking care of themselves. This Missionary hails from Detroit. Another glorious opportunity for wholesale operation I was constrained to forego!!! My Son, the apostles of charity, DEAR SOULS, would fleece us, if we would but hearken to them, and then hold us up to scorn for our simplicity and folly. By the bye this reminds me of the Rev'd Dr. Walker's sermon from the text "thou shalt say NO!" Should you and I become case hardened, it may enable us to hold on to the soft side of our hearts for our own dear little ones. 12 o'c[lock] M. Our church this morning was thinly attended. Mr. Bartol and family were absent. To Nancy and children my love, to Mr. and Mrs. and Miss B. my best compliments. Tell George I wish he would learn to read and speak with distinctness, elegance and force. I beg you to cultivate in him the spoken mother tongue. His mother perhaps can best do that, as she has a good enunciation. The English language as a spoken language is sadly neglected. Frederick has a good voice. Tell him if he will learn to spell I will kiss him and love him dearly. As it respects Eleanor she will do well; still I beg you to teach her English Grammar. It will compel her to think, especially if you will teach her Paradise Lost as Mr. Pierce taught you when you went to the Bowdoin School on Derne Street. As ever. Your father. P. S. The Gasmen have done their job in your houses. [Endorsed,] Geo. C. Shattuck, Jr., M. D. Millville, Concord, N. H. INDEX. A. Abbot, John, 500n. Ames, Adelbert, 470. Amory, Catharine (Greene), Diary, Abbott, Wilbur Cortez, Resident Amory, Frederic, 501n. Member, 242, 279. Acadia, account of, 513. Amory, Robert, on Stanwood, 223. Accomplished Ladies Delight, 37, Andrew, John Albion, correspond- 39, 56, 59. Adams, Abigail, letter, 499. Adams, Charles Francis, interest in ence with C. H. Dalton, 185. Aristocracy, fear of an, 136. Society, Adams, James Truslow, 24. 153; 1798, 156; 1799, 158; 1800, Armstrong, Samuel Turell, 254n, 159; portrait, 70. Adams, John Quincy, 243; 258. anti-Army of the Potomac, organization, 96. 258;| Ashmun, George, 268, 277. Adams, Matthew, 349, 351, 352. 480, 492. Africans in Canada, 515. Alexander, Edward Porter, on the civil war, 395- Allen, Gardner Weld, Naval Con- Allen, Levi, in England, 28. Allin, William, Some Discovery, 54. 229. Atwill, Augur, Christopher Colon, 493. |