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ELEVENTH 


ANNUAL    REPORT 


TRUSTEES    OF    THE    PUBLIC   LIBRARY. 


1863 


BOSTON: 
3.  E.  FARWELL  AND  COMPANY,  PRINTERS  TO  THE  CITY 


3"   Conoress    Street. 


18  6  3. 


City  Document.  —  No.  98. 


©H6!^    ©W    ®©OT®Ifo 


ELEVENTH 


ANNUAL    IlEPOET 

OF     THE 

TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


1863. 


In  Board  of  Aldermen,  November  23,  1863. 
Laid  on  the  table,  and  800  copies  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Attest:  S.  F.  McCLEARY,  City  Clerk. 


CITY    OF    BOSTON. 


Public  Library,  18  November,  1863. 

His  Honor  Frederic  W.  Lincoln,  Jr.,  Mayor  of  the  City 
of  Boston : 
Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  herewith,  the 
Eleventh  Annual  Report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library, 
prepared  in  obedience  to  the  fourth  section  of  the  Ordinance 
relative  to  the  Public  Library,  passed  on  the  20th  of  October, 
18(33. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

CHARLES  C.  JEWETT, 

Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ELEVENTH  ANNUAL  REPORT 


TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


In  obedience  to  the  fourth  section  of  the  Ordinance 
of  October  20,  1863,  in  relation  to  the  Public  Library, 
the  Trustees  ask  leave  to  submit  to  the  City  Council 
their  Eleventh  Annual 

REPORT. 

The  Ordinance  directs  that  a  Committee  shall  be 
annually  appointed  by  the  Trustees,  consisting  of  five 
citizens  at  large,  with  a  member  of  the  Board  to  act  as 
chairman,  who  shall  be  invited  to  examine  the  Library 
and  make  report  of  its  condition.  The  members  of  the 
Committee  for  the  present  year  are  Henry  F.  Durant, 
Esq.,  Right  Rev.  Bishop  Eastburn,  George  Hay  ward, 
M.D.,  Harvey  Jewell, Esq.,  and  Benjamin  S.  Rotch,  Esq.; 
George  Ticknor,  Esq.,  a  member  of  the  Board,  acting 
as  chairman.  The  Report  of  this  Committee,  marked 
A,  is  herewith  submitted,  together  with  the  Report  of 


,;  CI  PI    D0<  i   WENT.—  No.  97 

the  Superintendent  of  the  Library,  C.  C.  Jewett,  Esq., 
marked  B. 

The  Trustees  refer  to  these  documents  with  pleasure, 
as  presenting,  in  detail,  a  highly  satisfactory  view  of  the 
condition  of  the  Library,  and  of  its  operations  during 
the  past  year.  They  doubt  not  that  the  City  Council 
will  be  gratified  to  learn  from  them  that  the  institution 
has  in  no  degree  suffered  by  the  state  of  the  country, 
and  though  great  numbers  of  those  entitled  to  its  priv- 
ileges have  left  the  city  to  enter  the  public  service  in 
various  capacities,  the  number  of  books  borrowed  from 
the  Library  to  be  read  at  home,  as  well  as  of  those  con- 
sulted at  the  institution,  is  greater  than  in  any  former 
year. 

It  is  also  satisfactory  to  observe,  that  not  with  standing 
the  great  increase  of  the  price  of  the  foreign  books, 
owing  to  the  present  rate  of  exchange,  the  number  of 
volumes  added  to  the  Library  since  the  last  annual 
enumeration  is  equal  to  the  average  of  former  years. 

In  administering  the  important  institution  commit- 
ted to  their  care,  the  Trustees  have  continued  to  act 
on  the  principles  which  have  governed  the  Board  in 
former  years,  viz. :  that  of  making  it  as  extensively  and 
practically  useful  as  possible.  In  purchasing  books, 
nothing  has  been  done  for  luxurious  display.  No  high 
priced  book  has  ever  been  bought  because  it  was  a 
great  bibliographical  curiosity,  but  the  funds  of  the 
City  and  of  our  generous  benefactors,  entrusted  to  the 
care  of  the  Board  for  the  purchase  of  books,  have  been 
exclusively  expended  for  those  which  were  deemed  of 
substantial  utility.  The  institution,  however,  is  under 
obligations  to  several  of  its  liberal  friends  for  works  of 
costly  magnificence. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  7 

In  the  regulations  for  the  consultation  and  loan  of 
books,  the  Trustees  have  studied  the  greatest  amount 
of  accommodation  to  the  public,  consistent  with  a  just 
regard  to  the  safety  and  proper  care  of  the  collection. 
It  is  correctly  observed  by  the  Superintendent,  that  it 
would  not  have  been  difficult,  by  the  adoption  of  more 
stringent  rules,  to  prevent  the  loss  of  some  volumes  and 
some  injury  of  others  in  the  course  of  the  year,  but  it 
has  been  thought  better,  upon  the  whole,  to  submit  to 
this  inconvenience,  which  is  not  great,  than  to  enforce 
regulations  which  would  embarrass  the  free  use  of  the 
Library  now  enjoyed ;  and  which  the  Trustees  think 
they  may  with  truth  say,  exceeds  that  of  any  other 
public  library  in  this  country,  perhaps  in  the  world. 

In  the  earlier  Reports  of  the  Trustees  to  the  City 
Council,  they  have  discussed  at  considerable  length 
various  topics  of  interest  relative  to  the  history  and 
progress  of  the  Library.  Statements  and  suggestions 
of  this  kind  become  less  necessary  from  year  to  year  as 
experience  has  been  gained  in  the  management  of  the 
institution,  while  the  public  at  large  have  become  too 
well  convinced  of  its  utility  to  require  an  annual  ap- 
peal to  them  on  that  subject.  On  the  present  occasion 
the  Trustees  believe  that  they  shall  sufficiently  discharge 
their  duty  to  the  City  Council,  by  referring  them  to  the 
Reports  of  the  Examining  Committee  and  the  Superin- 
tendent, without  further  comment  on  their  own  part. 

It  is,  however,  but  just  to  bear  the  willing  testimony 
of  the  Board  to  the  intelligence,  zeal,  and  assiduity  with 
which  the  arduous  duties  of  the  Superintendent  and 
Librarian  have  been  discharged  by  those   gentlemen, 


CITY"   DOCUMENT. —No.  97. 

and  to  the  fidelity  and  diligence  of  their  assistants  of 

cither  sex. 

The  regular  meetings  of  the  Trustees  have  been 
held,  and  their  personal  attention  given  as  in  former 
years. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

EDWARD  EVERETT, 
GEORGE  TICKNOR, 
JOHN  P.  BIGELOW, 
NATHANIEL  B.  SHURTLEFF, 
WILLIAM  W.  GREENOUGH, 
JOHN  S.  TYLER, 
HENRY  A.  DRAKE. 

Public  Library,  November  17,  1863. 


[A] 
REPORT  OF  THE  EXAMINING  COMMITTEE. 


The  Examining  Committee,  appointed  in  obedience  to  the  re- 
quisitions of  the  seventh  section  of  an  Ordinance  in  relation  to  a 
Public  Library,  dated  October  14,  1852,  respectfully 

REPORT, 

That  they  have  endeavored  to  examine  the  Library  so  as  to 
understand  its  successive  operations  fronTthe  time  when  its  books 
are  first  received  to  the  time  when  they  begin  their  course  of 
duty  by  use  within  the  halls  of  the  building,  or  by  circulation 
through  the  community.  In  doing  this,  they  have  naturally 
made  their  inquiries  under  the  different  heads  of  the  Books  them- 
selves ;  the  Catalogues  that  render  the  books  easily  accessible ; 
and  the  forms  of  Administration,  through  which  they  are  offered  to 
the  public.  Under  these  same  heads,  therefore,  the  Committee 
can  most  easily  and  simply  explain  the  results  of  their  investiga- 
tions. 

I.  And,  first,  of  the  Books  and  their  condition,  it  being  the 
main  object  of  every  well-conducted  public  library  to  collect 
books  and  to  preserve  them  carefully  for  use. 

Regarded  from  this  point  of  view,  your  Committee  find  that 
the  number  of  volumes  in  the  Public  Library  is  materially 
larger  than  it  ever  was  at  any  previous  annual  examination, 
having  increased,  since  the  last  was  made,  above  five  thousand 
five  hundred  volumes.     And  they  further  find  that,  from  a  very 


10  CITY   DOCUMENT.  — No.  07. 

economical  arrangement  recently  adopted  for  the  repair  of  such 
books  as  may  need  it  in  their  binding's,  the  condition  of  the 
books  generally  is  better  than  it  ever  was  before,  and  is  con- 
stantly improving. 

But,  as  the  Committee  passed  from  alcove  to  alcove  in  the 
course  of  their  successive  examinations  of  the  whole  Library, 
they  could  not  fail  to  observe  with  pride  and  gratitude  that  by 
far  the  largest,  the  most  important,  and  the  most  instructive 
part  of  this  excellent  collection  of  books  has  come  to  the  City 
from  the  liberality  of  generous  individuals  interested  that  Bos- 
ton should  make  constant  progress  in  whatever  is  most  worthy 
of  distinction  and  honor.  The  gift  by  Mr.  Bates  of  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  in  books  of  permanent  value,  and  of  fifty  thousand 
dollars  more  as  a  fund  the  income  of  which  is  to  be  annually 
spent  in  the  purchase  of  other  books  of  the  same  class,  will  not 
be  forgotten  while  the  City  lasts.  Nor  will  the  generosity  of 
Mr.  Phillips,  Mr.  Lawrence,  or  the  other  benefactors  who  have 
contributed  to  our  Book  Fund,  including  the  liberal-minded 
young  men  who  have  increased  its  resources  this  very  year, 
ever  fail  of  grateful  recognition  and  record.  Their  example,  too, 
will  be  cherished  and  followed.  Men  of  a  wise  and  far-seeing 
benevolence,  like  theirs,  will  no  more  be  wanting  in  the  future 
than  they  have  been  in  the  past.  For  it  will,  we  believe,  con- 
tinue to  be  felt  that  there  is  no  way  in  which  a  thoughtful  man, 
who  wishes  to  promote  the  intellectual  culture,  the  real  pros- 
perity, and  the  moral  and  religious  advancement  of  the  com- 
munity to  which  he  and  his  children  belong,  —  while  at  the  same 
time  he  cherishes  the  natural  desire  that  his  own  memory  should 
be  kept  fresh  in  the  hearts  of  his  descendents  and  their  con- 
temporaries,—  can  accomplish  an  object  so  wise  and  worthy, 
more  honorably,  or  more  surely,  than  by  the  gift  of  a  fund  the 
income  of  which  shall  be  appropriated  forever  to  the  purchase  of 
books,  in  each  volume  of  which  his  name  will  always  be  re- 
corded as  a  public  benefactor,  and  circulated  as  such  through  all 
classes  and  conditions  of  our  citizens  in  all  future  time. 


PUBLIC  LIBEARY.  H 

Your  Committee,  therefore,  report  to  you  that,  so  far  as 
its  books  are  concerned,  the  Public  Library  is  in  a  better  con- 
dition than  it  has  been  at  any  previous  period,  and  that  it  is 
likely  to  make  similar  progress  hereafter,  not  only  from  its  pres- 
ent means,  but  from  other  resources  which  will  surely  be  sup- 
plied to  it  by  a  forecast  and  munificence  like  those  which  have 
made  it  what  it  now  is. 

II.  But  books  without  Catalogues  to  facilitate  their  use  are 
little  better  than  a  dead  mass  growing  more  and  more  unman- 
ageable as  it  increases  in  bulk.  Holding,  therefore,  as  we 
do,  that  a  book  is  never  so  much  in  the  way  of  its  duty  as 
it  is  when  it  is  in  hand  to  be  read,  we  believe  that,  next  in  im- 
portance to  having  a  good  and  ample  collection  of  books,  is  that 
of  having  Catalogues  fitted  not -only  to  render  their  use  possible 
or  convenient,  but  to  make  it  easy,  pleasant,  and  inviting.  In 
this  respect,  your  Committee  believe  that  the  Public  Library  has 
fairly  earned  no  little  reputation.  On  the  one  hand,  for  any 
person  who  wishes  thoroughly  to  investigate  any  subject  what- 
soever, its  system  of  manuscript  catalogues  opens  at  a  glance  all 
the  resources  of  the  Library  in  a  way  which  leaves  nothing  to  be 
desired  that  can  reasonably  be  asked ;  while,  on  the  other  hand, 
its  printed  Indexes,  abridged  from  these  same  manuscript  cata- 
logues, and  beginning  with  the  large  Index  of  the  Upper  Hall 
and  coming  down  to  the  convenient  supplements  which  every 
year  make  known  to  the  public  what  accessions  of  the  newest 
and  most  popular  books  have  been  made  in  the  Lower  Hall, 
have  proved  so  entirely  satisfactory  to  the  thousands  who  con- 
stantly use  them,  that,  as  we  understand,  not  a  complaint  has 
been  heard  or  a  doubt  expressed  as  to  their  peculiar  fitness  and 
success. 

Your  Committee,  however,  do  not  feel  at  liberty  to  stop  here. 
They  feel  bound,  while  speaking  of  the  catalogues,  to  add  that 
the  large  "  Index  to  the  Catalogue  of  Books  in  the  Upper 
Hall,"  published  in  1861,  has  been  received  and  acknowledged 
in  other  parts  of  the  United  States  and  in  Europe,  by  persons 


12  CITY    DOCUMENT.— No.  97. 

eminently  fitted  to  pronounce  judgment  on  its  merits,  as  a 
contribution  to  the  facilities  for  acquiring  knowledge  through  the 
use  of  large  libraries,  such  as  has  not  been  afforded  elsewhere. 
The  Public  Library,  in  fact,  through  this  printed  Catalogue, 
modestly  called  an  Index,  has  made  its  influence  felt  not  only 
here  at  home  by  the  multitudes  who  avail  themselves  of  the 
privileges  it  opens  to  them,  but  by  cultivated  persons  and  im- 
portant institutions  in  the  rest  of  the  country,  and  abroad. 

To  this  exposition  of  the  excellent  condition  and  peculiar  fit- 
ness of  the  catalogues,  both  manuscript  and  printed,  the  Com- 
mittee desire  to  state  a  further  fact,  which,  they  suppose,  can 
be  stated  in  relation  to  the  catalogues  of  few  large  public  libra- 
ries anywhere,  desirable  and  important  as  it  may  be  that  the 
same  fact  should  everywhere  be  .true.  They  refer  to  the  cir- 
cumstance, that  the  entries  in  the  different  catalogues  of  this 
Library  are  not  permitted  to  fall  behindhand.  They  are  kept  up 
to  the  time,  neatly,  fully,  and  in  the  most  satisfactory  manner. 
This  has  always  been  the  case  in  relation  to  the  Accessions' 
Catalogue  and  the  Shelf  Catalogues,  which  are,  in  some  respects, 
peculiarly  important,  because  the  first  contains  the  whole  history 
of  the  Library  as  a  collection  of  books,  and  the  other  is  an  exact 
inventory  of  it  as  a  valuable  part  of  the  City's  property.  The 
interleaved  indexes,  too,  for  the  convenience  of  the  public,  have 
never  failed  to  be  carried  on  from  week  to  week,  so  as  to  show 
constantly  what  new  popular  books  have  been  added  for  circu- 
lation. But  owing  to  the  sudden  influx  of  large  masses  of  books 
at  two  or  three  periods,  especially  when  Mr.  Bates  made  his 
great  donation,  and  when  Mr.  Parker's  bequest  was  received,  it 
was  not  possible  to  observe  the  same  promptness  in  relation  to 
the  ampler  and  more  minute  catalogue  on  cards ;  although  that 
catalogue,  too,  was  always  in  hand  and  always  advancing. 
But  time  and  industry  have  enabled  the  Superintendent  and  his 
assistants  to  overcome  this  difficulty,  as,  by  the  same  means,  they 
have  overcome  so  many  others.  The  Card  Catalogue  is  now  as 
complete  as  the  rest,  and  likely  to  continue  so. 


PUBLIC   LIBRARY.  13 

Of  the  catalogues,  therefore,  as  of  the  books,  —  the  two 
items  of  most  consequence  in  the  account  of  any  such  institu- 
tion —  your  Committee  are  happy  to  report  that  the  Library  was 
never  in  a  condition  to  be  so  useful  to  the  City  as  it  is  now,  or 
to  do  it  so  much  honor. 

III.  And,  finally,  in  regard  to  the  real  benefits  of  the 
Library  to  the  City  ;  or,  in  other  words,  in  regard  to  the  circula- 
tion of  its  hooks  and  their  use  in  its  halls,  the  Committee  are  able 
to  make  a  report  no  less  satisfactory.  The  Library  was  more 
used  during  the  last  year  than  it  ever  was  before  ;  that  is,  more 
books  were  taken  out  on  a  daily  average  and  more  on  one  par- 
ticular day ;  more  persons  consulted  it  as  a  library  of  reference ; 
more  persons  resorted  to  its  pleasant  and  attractive  reading- 
room  ;  more  visited  it  from  a  curiosity  which  it  is  honorable  to 
the  City  to  have  excited.  It  has,  in  short,  in  every  way  appro- 
priate to  such  an  institution,  done  more  good  during  the  last 
year  than  it  ever  did  before,  and  there  seems  to  be  no  sufficient 
reason  why  it  should  not  continue  to  do  more  and  more  good 
every  year  hereafter. 

Your  Committee  are  confirmed  in  this  conclusion  as  to  the 
increasing  usefulness  and  importance  of  the  Library  when  they 
look  back  to  its  origin,  and,  from  its  progress  to  the  present 
time,  take,  so  far  as  they  fairly  may,  a  measure  for  coming 
years.  In  this  respect,  indeed,  a  simple  recurrence  to  the  dates, 
concerning  which  there  can  be  no  mistake  or  question,  is  full 
of  instruction  and  encouragement.  The  first  report  of  the 
Trustees,  setting  forth  the  principles  on  which  they  hoped  to  build 
up  the  institution  committed  to  their  care,  was  made  in  July, 
1852,  and  the  Library  itself  was  opened  in  May,  1854.  Its 
resources  at  that  period  were  small;  perhaps,  considering  the 
objects  aimed  at,  ttey  should  be  called  humble.  They  consisted 
of  about  twelve  thousand  volumes,  a  very  large  part  of  which, 
though  valuable,  was  the  result  of  donations,  and  was  not  well 
fitted  for  the  popular  circulation  and  reading  which  constituted 
the  primary  object  of  this  institution.     Its  local  arrangements, 


14  <ITY    DOCUMENT.  — No.  97. 

confined  to  two  rooms,  we're  narrow,  inadequate,  and  thoroughly 
uncomfortable  ;  but  no  more  space  was  to  be  had,  and  it  was  no 
deemed  advisable  to  wait  for  the  accumulation  of  more  appro- 
priate books.  The  project  was  regarded  by  many  whose  judg- 
ment and  influence  could  neither  be  wisely  nor  safely  overlooked, 
as  an  experiment  promising  little  real  or  lasting  good  to  the  city. 
At  this  uncertain  and  anxious  period  came  the  most  opportune 
expressions  of  Mr.  Bates's  munificence  in  1852,  1853,  and  1855  ; 
—  unsolicited,  unexpected,  in  fact  wholly  spontaneous,  —  which, 
for  the  first  time,  placed  the  Library  upon  a  safe  foundation  as 
a  City  institution  of  permanent  and  acknowledged  importance. 
Scarcely  ten  years  have  elapsed  since  this  change  came  over  its 
character  and  prospects  ;  but  already  above  an  hundred  thou- 
sand volumes,  well  suited  to  their  purpose,  have  been  gathered 
on  its  shelves,  and  accounts  have  been  opened  for  their  use  in 
the  freest  and  most  trusting  manner,  with  above  thirty  thousand 
different  persons.  It  is  become  an  institution  which  does 
honor  to  the  City  at  home  and  abroad,  and  of  which  the  City  in 
return  is  justly  proud.  Above  all,  it  is  an  institution  which 
does  great  good  to  great  numbers,  and  does  it  every  day  to  the 
full  acceptance  of  an  intelligent  community.  Results  like  these, 
in  so  short  a  period,  were  certainly  not  anticipated  by  the  most 
earnest  and  sanguine  of  its  original  friends  ;  and  standing  where 
we  now  do,  we  may  assuredly  accept  them  as  the  augury  of  a 
prosperous  and  beneficent  future. 

GEORGE  TICKNOR, 
HENRY  F.  DURANT, 
MANTON  EASTBURN, 
GEORGE  HAY  WARD, 
HARVEY  JEWELL, 
BENJAMIN  S.  ROTCH. 
Public  Library,  November  4,  1863. 


[B] 
REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT. 


To  the  Trustees  of  the  Publtc  Library  of  the  City 
of  Boston  : 

Gentlemen  :  In  compliance  with  a  requirement  of  the  "By- 
Laws  relative  to  the  Trustees  and  Officers  of  the  Public  Li- 
brary," I  have  the  honor  to  present  to  you  a  Report  upon  the 
condition  and  increase  of  the  Library  from  the  first  of  Novem- 
ber, 1862,  to  the  first  of  September,  1863. 

In  order  the  better  to  accommodate  a  large  number  of  those 
who  make  most  use  of  the  books,  and  in  consequence  of  sugges- 
tions made  by  the  last  Committee  of  Examination,  the  Trustees 
have  changed  the  time  for  the  annual  examination  of  the  Li- 
brary, from  October  to  August.  On  this  account,  therefore,  the 
statistics  of  the  present  report  apply  to  a  period  of  ten  months 
instead  of  twelve.  This  fact  should  be  borne  in  mind,  when 
comparing  the  aggregates  of  increase  and  of  circulation,  herein 
given,  with  those  of  former  years. 

It  is  pleasant  to  be  able  to  say,  in  general  terms,  before  pre- 
senting in  detail  the  results  of  our  annual  review,  that,  during 
the  continuance  of  the  great  patriotic  struggle  upon  which  Bos- 
ton has  bestowed  so  liberally  the  best  she  had  to  give,  her  citi- 
zens have  found  time  and  means  to  cherish  with  constant  care, 
an  institution  like  this,  and  to  avail  themselves  of  its  resources, 
even  more  extensively  than  ever  before. 


1,;  CITY  DOCUMENT.  — No.  97. 

The  Library  contains  at  present, — 

In  the  Upper  Hall         .         .  88,038  volumes 

In  the  Lower  Hall     .         .  22,525 

Total   ....  110,563       « 

These  are  all  bound  volumes,  but  about  1,600  of  them  are 
pamphlets  separately  bound,  and  5,237  are  duplicates.  Some 
exchanges  of  duplicates  have  already  been  made,  and  arrange- 
ments are  in  progress  for  disposing  of  the  greater  part  of  them 
in  the  same  way. 

There  are  also  in  the  Library,  according  to  the  enumeration 
continued  from  year  to  year,  31,043  unbound  pamphlets.  But 
this  number  includes  many  duplicates  of  pamphlets  already 
placed  upon  the  shelves  •  and  catalogued  ;  numerous  copies  of 
certain  publications ;  odd  numbers  of  magazines  and  public 
documents  ;  and  many  articles  of  very  little  value.  During  the 
year  much  has  been  done  towards  sorting  out  the  duplicates, 
and  making  a  more  satisfactory  arrangement  of  the  pamphlets 
which  remain.  It  is  proposed  further,  as  time  and  funds  will 
permit,  to  select  the  most  valuable  of  the  pamphlets,  bind  them 
separately,  and  place  them  in  the  Library  as  books.  It  is  hoped 
that  this  system  may  be  pursued  till  nothing  shall  be  left  in  the 
room  devoted  to  these  productions,  but  such  as  are  incomplete 
or  not  worth  binding.  The  mode  of  binding  pamphlets  which 
has  recently  been  adopted  for  this  Library,  while  it  is  neat  and 
strong,  is  so  inexpensive  —  not  costing  more  than  eight  or  ten 
dollars  a  hundred  —  that  it  will  be  practicable  to  place  upon  the 
shelves,  as  books,  all  pamphlets  which  seem  worthy  of  preserva- 
tion. About  1,500  of  the  pamphlets  of  Mr.  Theodore  Parker's 
library  have,  during  the  last  year,  been  thus  bound,  and  they 
form  a  very  interesting  portion  of  his  bequest. 

It  is  not  indeed  proposed  to  destroy  any  of  these  publica- 
tions. Some  which  now  seem  utterly  worthless,  may  hereafter 
become  of  value.      It  will  be  easy,  so  long  as  there  is  room 


PUBLIC  LIBKAKY.  17 

in  the  building,  to  preserve  them,  and  to  arrange  them  so  that 
they  can  readily  be  found. 

The  increase  and  active  service  of  the  Library,  during  the 
period  covered  by  this  report,  may  be  concisely  presented  in  the 
following:  tabular  statement :  — 


No.  of  books  added  : 

In  the  Upper  Hall, 

3,885 

In  the  Lower  Hall, 

1,644 

Total, 

5,529 

No.  of  pamphlets  added, 

2,169 

"     "  separate  papers, 

772 

"     "  maps,  broadsides,  etc.. 

24 

Donations  of  volumes, 

829 

"          "  pamphlets, 

1,958 

Purchases  "  volumes, 

4,700 

"           "  pamphlets, 

212 

No.  of  accounts  opened  in  the  loan  books, 

3,495 

Total  No.  of  accounts, 

30,481 

No.  of  lendings  for  home  use, 

138,027 

Daily  avei'age, 

643.56 

Largest  No.  of  lendings  in  one  day,  (7Febn 

l- 

ary,    1863,) 

1,534 

No.  of  lendings  for  use  in  the  building, 

7,124 

Books  missing  (September  1, 

1863,) 

234 

Books  regained  of  last  year's 

loss  (294), 

156 

Books  worn  out, 

106 

Books  replaced  (of  which  75  are  of  those  worn 

out  this  year),  127 

Amount  collected  in  fines,  $  87  90 

The  additions  to  the  Library  by  purchase  are  equal  to  the 
average  in  former  years,  notwithstanding  the  enhanced  price  of 
foreign  books. 

The  number  of  new  names  upon  the  loan  books  is  105  less 
than  during  the  like  period  last  year. 


18  CITY   DOCUMENT.  — No.  97. 

The  daily  average  of  circulation  is  larger  than  ever  before 
Last  war  it  was  626;  tin.-   year  G43  and  a   fraction.     In  one 

day  during  the  present  year  1,534  books  were  lent  out  of  the 
building.  The  largest  Dumber  on  any  previous  day  was  1,517. 
Notwithstanding  the  large  aggregate  of  the  circulation,  it  should 
be  remembered,  that  it  does  not  in  any  way  represent  some  of 
the  most  important  uses  of  the  Library.  The  Reviews,  Mag- 
azines, and  Books  of  Reference  in  the  Reading  Room  are  acces- 
sible and  are  constantly  used,  day  and  evening.  The  Specifica- 
tions of  English  Patents  form  a  Library  of  themselves,  and  are 
much  consulted.  There  are  also  almost  constant  references  to 
books  of  which  it  is  impossible  to  make  record.  The  great 
number  of  lendings  is  so  striking  and  valuable  a  feature,  that 
we 'may  be  pardoned,  perhaps,  for  dwelling  less  than  we  ought 
upon  those  other  benefits  of  the  institution,  which  are  sufficient, 
however,  of  themselves  to  commend  it  to  the  highest  favor  of 
the  public. 

The  number  of  books  missing  and  worn  out  is  about  the  same 
as  usual,  as  also  of  books  regained ;  making  the  average  of 
final  losses,  (almost  entirely  confined  to  cheap  books  easily 
replaced,)  less  than  300  volumes  a  year. 

The  remark  made  in  former  reports  applies  with  at  least  equal 
force  this  year,  that  the  amount  collected  in  fines  will  go  far 
towards  replacing  the  whole  that  is  actually  lost  by  the  circula- 
tion. 

The  larger  and  more  costly  works  are  for  the  most  part  asked 
for  only  by  those  Avho  know  their  value  and  guard  them  care- 
fully. The  losses  are  mostly  accidental.  They  could  be  nearly 
all  prevented  by  a  stricter  method  of  record ;  but  it  has  always 
been  feared  that  such  strictness  would  prevent  many,  who  now 
frequent  the  Library,  from  availing  themselves  of  its  privileges. 

The  usual  list  of  the  donors  to  the  Library  is  appended  to 
this  report,  and  marked  AA.  They  are  194  in  number,  and 
include  the  names  of  several  who  have,  from  year  to  year,  re- 
peated  their   benefactions.     Mr.    Ticknor   has  presented    176 


PUBLIC  LIBEAKY.  19 

volumes  ;  Mr.  William  G.  Cranch  of  Washington,  63,  besides 
a  large  number  of  pamphlets ;  the  Rev.  Dr.  Gannett,  53,  and 
Mr.  John  A.  Loring,  45.  The  Hon.  Henry  Wilson  has  con- 
tinued to  send  the  full  series  of  government  publications  to  the 
Library. 

Scarcely  a  year  passes  when  we  have  not  the  pleasure  of  re- 
cording some  addition  to  the  permanent  funds  of  the  Library. 
During  the  last  year  one  of  peculiar  interest  was  received  from 
the  Trustees  of  a  literary  association  of  young  men,  formerly 
existing  in  this  City,  under  the  name  of  the  Franklin  Club. 
After  several  years  of  useful  activity  the  association  was  dis- 
solved, and  the  funds  in  its  treasury  were  placed  in  the  hands 
of  trustees,  with  instructions  to  bestow  the  same  as  to  them 
might  seem  most  judicious.  The  sum,  originally  about  four 
hundred  dollars,  by  prudent  and  skilful  management  had  become 
a  full  thousand.  The  judgment  and  action  of  the  trustees 
with  regard  to  it  may  best  be  told  in  the  words  of  the  following 
letter :  — 

Boston,  June  8,  1863. 

Hon.  F.  W.  Lincoln,  Je.,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Boston: 

Sir  :  The  Franklin  Club,  an  association  of  young  men,  at  its 
dissolution,  deposited  in  our  hands  the  funds  then  in  the  treas- 
ury, with  authority  to  dispose  of  them  in  such  manner  as  should 
seem  judicious. 

We  now  Oiffer  to  the  City  of  Boston  the  sum  of  one  thousand 
dollars,  to  be  placed  at  interest  forever  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Public  Library,  on  the  following  conditions,  namely  : 

In  trust,  that  the  income  of  this  fund,  but  its  income  only, 
shall  year  by  year,  be  expended  in  the  purchase  of  books  of 
permanent  value  for  the  use  of  the  Free  Public  Library  of  the 
City,  and  as  far  as  practicable  of  such  a  character,  as  to  be  of 
special  interest  to  young  men. 

And  without  wishing  to  impose  upon  those  who  may  adminis- 


20  CITY   DOCUMENT.  — No.  97. 

ter  the  fund,  an  inflexible  condition,  we  would  express  a  prefer- 
ence for  books  relative  to  Government  and  Political  Economy. 
Respectfully, 

THOMAS  MINNS, 
JOHN  J.  FRENCH, 
J.  FRANKLIN  REED. 

The  money  thus  presented  was  gratefully  accepted  and  ac- 
knowledged by  the  City,  invested  in  six  per  cent  City  scrip, 
the  income  of  which  is  to  be  expended  year  by  year,  by  the 
Trustees  of  the  Public  Library,  in  accordance  with  the  condi- 
tions imposed  most  judiciously  by  the  donors. 

Among  the  numerous  gifts  which  have  been  made  to  the 
Library,  none  is  more  encouraging  than  this,  betokening  as  it 
does  the  affectionate  and  intelligent  interest  with  which  the 
institution  will  be  cherished  and  conducted,  when  it  shall  be 
confided,  as  ere  long  it  will  be,  entirely  to  the  hands  of  those 
who  are  now  the  young  men  of  the  City. 

The  class  of  books  for  which  the  donors  of  this  fund  expressed 
a  preference,  is  very  appropriate  to  be  provided  for,  by  young 
men  of  culture,  in  a  community  so  generally  devoted  to  mercan- 
tile pursuits.  The  principles  and  wide  relations,  social  and 
political,  of  what  is  popularly  denominated  business,  are  but  too 
little  understood.  Books  of  more  immediate  and  transient  pop- 
ularity are  too  often  perferred  to  those  which  treat  of  subjects 
connected  with  political  economy  and  government. 

The  indication  of  preference,  modestly  expressed^  in  the  letter 
of  presentation,  does  honor  to  the  writers,  and  is  an  instructive 
testimony,  from  the  most  desirable  source,  to  the  importance  of 
placing  in  the  Library,  not  merly  attractive  books,  but  also 
books  of  sober,  substantial,  scientific  value. 

In  this  connection  it  may  be  well  to  say  that  while  the  money 
appropriated  for  books  by  the  City  has  been  from  year  to  year 
expended  wholly  upon  the  most  popular  English  books  and  the 
best  magazines  of  the  day,  private  liberality  has  supplied  the 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY.  21 

funds  which  have  made  the  Library  already  valuable  to  those 
engaged  in  researches  in  almost  every  department  of  science 
and  of  the  arts.  The  use  of  the  less  popular  portion  of  a  li- 
brary is  apt  to  be  too  little  noticed.  It  does  not  show  itself 
conspicuously  in  a  statement  of  the  circulation,  but  it  is  suited 
to  produce  results  of  highest  moment  to  the  intellectual  and 
material  progress  of  the  community.  Impressed  with  this  con- 
sideration, the  Trustees  have  desired  to  secure  for  the  Library 
the  best  works  in  all  departments,  in  order  that  the  earnest 
student  trained  in  our  schools,  however  poor  he  may  be,  and 
the  mechanic  and  professional  man,  may  find  and  may  freely 
use  the  means  for  the  highest  intellectual  achievements. 

During  the  year  an  enumeration  of  the  books  with  reference 
to  the  languages  in  which  they  were  written,  was  made,  and  the 
result  is  herewith  presented,  as  descriptive  of  the  character  of 
the  Library.  At  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Bates,  the  principal 
donor  to  the  funds,  the  Trustees  have  endeavored,  so  far  as  the 
means  in  their  hands  allowed,  to  procure  the  best  works  in  all 
languages,  as  well  as  in  every  direction  of  scientific  and  literary 
activity.  To  this  end  they  early  sought,  and  were  successful 
in  securing,  from  gentlemen  of  known  eminence  in  various  pur- 
suits, assistance  in  making  lists  of  such  books  as  were  deemed 
most  important  in  different  branches  of  knowledge.  Thus  the 
wants  and  wishes  of  all  classes  of  the  community  were  primarily 
consulted  ;  and  no  pains  have  since  been  spared  in  maintaining 
at  each  stage  of  the  progress  of  the  Library  a  due  harmony  of 
proportion  in  all  departments  of  reading  and  investigation.  The 
judgment  of  those  best  competent  to  form  an  opinion  upon 
the  subject,  has  been  emphatic  in  praise  of  the  selections  which 
have  been  made. 

3 


11 


CITY  DOCUMENT.  — No.  97. 


ENUMERATION  OF  THE  BOOKS  BY  LANGUAGES. 


No.  of  Volumes  in  Upper 

English 

French f 

German 

Italian 

Latin < 

Greek 

Spanish 

Chinese 

Dutch , 

Danish 

Swedish 

Portuguese 

Russian 

Polish 

Norwegian 

Various  languages  or  dialects  . , 


Total. 


37,273 

16,841 

7,380 

7,068 

3,064 

590 

240 

189 

130 

78 

21 

16 

12 

8 

6 

177 


58,489 

17,417 

8,139 

7,277 

3,064 

590 

241 

189 

130 

78 

21 

16 

12 

8 

6 

177 

95,854 


This  enumeration  includes  only  those  books  which,  at  the  time 
when  it  was  made,  had  been  entered  on  the  shelf-lists,  and  does 
not  comprise  the  duplicates  nor  those  since  received.  The 
books  enumerated  under  "various  languages  and  dialects,"  are 
nearly  all  translations  of  the  Bible  and  parts  thereof,  published 
by  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  and  by  the  American 
Bible  Society. 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


23 


I  present  below  a  statement  of  the  relative  use  of  different 
classes  of  books  in  the  Upper  Hall,  repeating  the  remark  which 
I  had  occasion  to  make  in  a  former  report,  that  the  rapid  method 
of  charging  books  in  the  Lower  Hall,  renders  impracticable  the 
classification  of  lendings  in  that  department. 


CLASSIFICATION   OF   BOOKS   LENT   IN   THE   UPPER   HALL. 


English  history  and  literature 

Theology  and  ethics 

Useful  arts  and  fine  arts 

Periodicals  .... 

Medicine        .... 

American  history 

Mathematical  and  physical  sciences 

French  history  and  literature 

General  history 

Italian  history  and  literature 

Natural  history 

Oriental  history  and  literature 

Greek  and  Latin  classics 

Transactions  of  learned  societies 

Bibliography 

German  history  and  literature 

Miscellaneous 

Law  ..... 


17  J  per  cent. 
11 

9 

7 

7 

6 

5£ 

5 

4* 

4 

4 

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3 

3 

2i 
2 

n 


The  condition  of  the  books  is,  in  general,  excellent.  The 
most  popular  books  in  the  Lower  Library  are,  indeed,  much 
soiled  and  injured  by  writing  in  them  and  otherwise.  The 
expense  of  covering  and  of  rebinding  is  considerable.  Many 
books  are  heedlessly, — few,  however,  wilfully,  —  mutilated. 
It  would  be  easy  to  put  a  stop  to  such  injuries,  as  to  the  losses 
already  mentioned,  but  only  by  measures  which,  it  has  been 
feared,  would  make  it  too  difficult  for  a  large  class  of  people  to 


24  CITY    DOCUMENT.  — No.  97. 

use  the  Library.  It  is  well,  therefore,  to  consider  that  both  the 
losses  and  the  injuries  fall  upon  a  small  part  of  the  books,  and 
those  generally  such  as  are  neither  scarce  nor  clear  ;  that  they 
are,  for  the  most  part,  the  result  of  misfortune,  of  carelessness, 
of  uncleanly  habits,  and  of  ignorance,  which  it  is  one  great 
object  of  the  free  circulation  of  books  to  remove  or  diminish ; 
and  that,  after  all,  they  are  of  small  importance  compared  with 
the  great  benefits  which  the  Library  confers  by  the  freest  circu- 
lation of  its  books. 

In  the  Upper  Hall  much  has  been  done  to  improve  the  ex- 
ternal appearance  of  the  books  by  repairing  such  as  were  torn 
and  defaced.  A  hand  printing-press,  and  a  small  quantity  of 
type  and  materials,  have  enabled  us,  with  the  occasional  services 
of  a  person  employed  in  the  Library,  who  was  formerly  a  printer, 
to  letter  handsomely  several  thousand  volumes,  destitute  of  titles 
upon  the  backs,  besides  all  the  pamphlets  which  have  been  bound, 
as  already  stated.  A  binder,  Mr.  Seth  Goldsmith,  has  for  several 
months  been  employed  in  the  building,  repairing  and  renovat- 
ing the  bindings,  and  binding  pamphlets.  By  his  services  more 
has  been  done  for  the  good  appearance  and  preservation  of  the 
books  than  could  have  been  effected  in  the  ordinary  way  in  a 
much  longer  time  and  at  a  much  greater  cost. 

During  the  last  year,  as  during  the  years  preceding,  the  new 
books  received  in  the  Library  have  been,  with  the  least  possible 
delay,  placed  on  the  shelves,  ready  in  all  respects  for  public  use. 
Neither  the  Catalogue,  nor  any  part  of  the  work  on  accessions, 
has  ever  been  allowed  to  fall  in  arrears. 

The  printed  Index  can  never,  of  course,  fully  represent  the 
condition  of  the  Library  so  long  as  the  Library  continues  to 
increase.  While  the  great  work  of  preparing  and  printing  the 
Index  to  the  Upper  Hall  was  in  progress,  large  accessions  were 
received,  among  them  the  bequest  of  the  late  Theodore  Parker. 
These  additions  are  now  all  catalogued  and  accessible  to  the 
public.  The  Supplementary  Index  will,  it  is  hoped,  be  printed 
before  the  close  of  the  present  Library  year.     It  will  be  nearly 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY.  25 

half  as  large  as  the  original  volume,  and  will  represent  more 
than  twenty-five  thousand  books.  The  printed  guides  to  the 
books  will  then  be :  —  The  Index  to  the  Lower  Hall  in  204 
pages,  printed  in  1858,  with  six  supplementary  lists,  issued 
annually  for  the  convenience  of  the  public,  and  containing 
abridged  titles,  without  cross  references,  —  and  the  Index  to  the 
Upper  Hall,  issued  in  1861,  in  902  pages,  with  a  Supplement 
containing  probably  400  pages.  It  will  soon  become  a  matter 
of  pressing  importance  to  consolidate  the  Index  and  Supple- 
ments to  the  Lower  Hall.  About  8000  copies  of  the  Index 
first  published  will  speedily  have  been  distributed,  and  a  new 
edition,  or  a  new  Catalogue,  will  be  demanded.  The  several 
supplements  maybe  combined  into  one,  and  the  cross  references 
added,  so  as  to  form  a  single  large  Supplement ;  but  it  will 
doubtless  be  thought  best  to  reprint  the  whole  Index  and  Sup- 
plements in  one  alphabet.  The  whole  printed  Catalogue  will 
then  be  in  three  alphabets,  and  it  will  appear  practicable  to 
publish  in  one  alphabet  an  index  or  catalogue  of  the  whole  col- 
lection in  both  halls,  with  short  titles,  under  authors  and  sub- 
jects. This  is  the  great  desideratum,  and  becomes  more  and 
more  important  as  the  books  increase  in  number. 

I'  cannot  close  this  report  without  saying  that,  through  the 
last  year,  as  through  previous  years,  the  good  order  of  the 
Library  has  never  once  been  disturbed  by  rudeness  or  impro- 
prieties on  the  part  of  visitors,  though  nothing  has  been  done, 
as  nothing  was  needed,  by  way  of  restraint.  A  fact  like  this 
is  worth  repeating,  when  it  is  considered  that  on  some  days  not 
less  than  two  thousand  persons  visit  the  Library  for  borrowing 
or  returning  books,  for  reading  or  for  reference,  besides  many 
more  who  come  from  mere  curiosity. 

I  append  to  this  report  the  usual  financial  statement,  marked 
BB. 

Respectfully  submitted , 

CHARLES  C.  JEWETT,  Superintendent. 

Public  Library,  October  20,  1863. 
3* 


[AA] 


LIST   OF   DONORS. 


Bates,  Joshua,  London,  interest  of  fund, 
Bigelow,  Hon.  John  P.,       "  " 

Lawrence,  Hon.  Abbott,      "  " 

Phillips,  Hon.  Jonathan,      "  " 

Townsend,  Mary  P.,  "  " 


$3,000  00 

60  00 

600  00 

1,800  00 

240  00 


Trustees  of  the  Franklin  Club,  $  1,000,  the  income  of  which 
is  to  be  expended  annually  in  the  purchase  of  books. 


Abbott,  G.  J.,  Washington, 

Agassiz,  L.,  Prof.,  Cambridge, 

A.  E.  E., 

Albany  Young  Men's  Assoc,  for  Mutual  Improvem't. 

American  Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester, 

American  Anti-slavery  Society, 

American  Philosophical  Society,  Philadelphia, 

American  Unitarian  Association, 

Andrews,  William  T., 

Ann  Arbor,  University  of  Michigan, 

Anonymous,  1  paper,  1  broadside 

Appleton,  Charles  Hook, 

Appleton,  George  E.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 

Baker,  Nathaniel  B.,  Adjutant-General  of  Iowa, 


Vols. 

2 


Pamps. 

3 

1 
2 


2 

27 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 


27 


Balfour,  David  M. , 

Barnard,  Henry,  Hon.,  Hartford, 

Bartlett,  J.  R.,  Hon.,  Providence, 

Bates,  Samuel  P.,  Harrisburg,  Pa., 

Bedlington,  Timothy, 

Beverly  Public  Library, 

Binney,  W.  G.,  Burlington,  N.  J., 

Boston,  City  of,  5  portfolios, 

Boston,  Twelfth  Cong'l.  Society,  Francis  Brown, 

Bowditch,  H.  I.,  M.  D., 

Bowditch,  Nathaniel,  Sons  of, 

Bradlee,  Caleb  Davis,  Rev.,  1  manuscript, 

British  Museum,  London, 

Brooklyn  Mercantile  Library  Association, 

Burnham,  T.  O.  H.  P., 

Burroughs,  Henry,  Rev., 

Burroughs,  Thomas  H.,  Hon., 

Butler  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  Providence, 

Byington,  E.  M., 

Canada,  Government  of, 

Chambers,  George  E., 

Charlestown  Public  Library, 

Christern,  F.  W.,  New  York, 

Cincinnati  Young  Men's  Mercantile  Lib.  Association, 

Cochrane,  James,  Edinburgh, 

Colby,  Anthony,  Adjutant-General  of  N.  Hamp., 

Colton,  F.  P.,  Adjutant-General  of  Connecticut, 

Connecticut  State  Library,  J.  Hoadley, 

Cradlebaugh,  John,  Hon.,  M.  C, 

Cranch,  William  G.,  Washington,  D.  C,  7  papers 

Gushing,  Isaac, 

Darrow,*G.  R., 

Dean,  John  Ward, 

Detroit  Young  Men's  Society, 

Dudley,  Dean, 

Dunphv,  James  W., 

Dutton,  E.  P.,  &Co., 

Edinburgh  Royal  Society, 

Edinburgh  Scotsman,  Editor  of, 

Eliot,  Samuel,  Hartford,  Conn., 

Elliott,  E.  B., 

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Everett,  Edward,  Hon.,  142  papers, 

Fall  River  Public  Library, 

Farley,  Hubert, 

Felt,  LydiaB., 

Fluegel,  Felix,  Leipzig, 

Foley,  William  J., 

Fuller,  Allen  C,  Adjutant-General,  Springfield,  111., 

Gannett,  Ezra  S.,  1).  D., 

Garrison,  Wendell  Phillips, 

Gaylord,  Augustus,  Adjutant-General  of  Wisconsin, 

Gilman,  D.  C.,  Prof.,  New  Haven, 

Goldsmith,  Seth, 

Gould,  Nathaniel  D.,  1  broadside, 

Grant,  S.  Hastings,  New  York, 

Green,  S.  A.,  M.  D., 

Greenough,  W.  W.,  240  papers. 

Grout,  Lewis,  Rev.,  Saxton's  River,  Vt., 

Guild,  -Samuel  E.,  Mrs., 

Hale,  Salma,  Hon.,  Keene,  N.  H., 

Hall,  Charles  B., 

Hall,  J.  P., 

Hall,  W.  W.,  M.  D., 

Harvard  Cullege, 

Harvard  College  Observatory, 

Hayden,  John  C,  M.  D., 

Hedge,  J.  Dunham,  Providence, 

Hill,  Charles  W.,  Brigadier-General,  Ohio, 

Hodsdon,  John  L.,  Brigadier-General,  Maine, 

Holmes,  Oliver  W.,  M.  D., 

Homans,  J.  Smith,  New  York, 

Hooper,  Samuel,  Hon., 

Jackson,  Abby  C, 

Jarvis,  Edward,  M.  D.,  Dorchester, 

Jewett,  C.  C, 

Kibbe,  Wm.  C,  Adjutant-General  of  California, 

Lawrence,  Abbott,  3  papers,  20  maps, 

Lawrence,  T.  Bigelow,  1  engraving, 

Library  of  Congress, 

Lieber,  Francis,  LL.  I)., 

Livermore,  George, 

Liverpool  Library, 

Loring,  Charles  G., 


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Loring,  J.  Spear,  9      27 

Loring,  John  A.,  45 

London,  Institution  of  Civil  Engineers,  1 

London,  Royal  Astronomical  Society,  2 

London,  Royal  Geographical  Society, 

London,  Royal  Society,  1 

Lord,  Melvin,  2 

Lowell  City  Library,  1 

MacCarthy,  Denis  Florence,  Dalkeld,  Ireland,  1 

McDougall,  J.  A.,  Hon.,  1 

Maha  Raja  Kalee  Krishna  Bahadur,  Calcutta,  3        2 

Malmros,  Oscar,  Adjutant-General  of  Minnesota,  1 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  2 

Mauran,  Edward,  Adjutant-General  of  R.  I., 

Moore,  Charles  W., 

Morgan,  Henry  J.,  Quebec,  1 

Moscow,  Societe  Imperiale  de,  1 

Mumford,  S.  R.,  Detroit, 

Napoleon,  Emperor  of  the  French,  2 

New  Bedford  Public  Library,  1 

Newbury  port  Public  Library,  1 

New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce,  2 

New  York,  Mercantile  Library  Association,  1 

New  York,  Regents  of  the  University,  1 

New  York  Society  Library, 

Onderdonk,  Henry,  Jr.,  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  2 

Otis,  Mary,  3 

Palfrey,  Sarah  H.,  2 

Palfrey,  Francis  J., 

Parker,  Henry  T.,  8 

Parker,  Theodore,  part  of  bequest,  138    1371 

Parsons,  Usher,  M.  D.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  1 

Peabody  Institute,  South  Danvers,  1 

Perry,  W.  S.,  Rev.,  1 

Philbrick,  JohnD., 

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Picarfl,  William,  Cadiz, 

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Preble,  George  H.,  U.  S.  N.,  11 

Randall,  Stephen,  Esq., 

Rawlinson,  Robert,  England, 

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Redwood  Library,  Newport, 

Reynolds,  Ann  C., 

Rhees,  William  J.,  Washington, 

Richardson,  James  B., 

Robertson,  John,  Adjutant-General  of  Michigan, 

Rosenstein,  Moritz,  M.  D., 

Russell,  A.  L.,  Adjutant-General  of  Penn., 

St.  Louis  Mercantile  Library, 

Scudder,  C.  W., 

Seidensticker,  James  G., 

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Sherman,  John,  Hon., 

Smith,  C.  C, 

Smith,  Samuel,  Worcester, 

Smithsonian  Institution,  Washington, 

Snow,  Edwin  M.,  M.  D.,  Providence, 

Stevens,  B.  F., 

Stockton,  R.  F.,  Adjutant-General  of  New  Jersey, 

Stone,  Edwin  M.,  Rev.,  Providence, 

Storer,  H.  R.,  M.  D., 

Sumner,  Charles,  Hon., 

Tappan,  John  L.,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich., 

Thornton,  J.  Wingate, 

Ticknor,  George, 

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Tolman  &  Co.,  7  papers. 

Tyler,  John  S.,  Mrs., 

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United  States,  Department  of  State, 

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Willard,  Joseph, 

Williams,  Jos.  D.,  Adjutant-General  of  Connecticut, 

Willis,  Nathaniel,  13  papers. 

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[BB] 
FINANCIAL  STATEMENT, 

For  ten  months,  from  November  1, 1862,  to  August  31,  1863, 


Books,  American.  $4,237.67 

foreign  books,  $4,933.33, 
Expense, 

Furniture  and  fixtures, 
Gas,    . 
Printing, 
Salaries, 
Stationery, 
Transportation 


Remittances  for 


including  insurance,  postage,  etc 


$2,666  13 

9,171 

00 

713 

17 

65 

84 

749 

41 

365 

66 

10,369 

70 

582 

88 

388 

43 

$25,071  72 

BOSTON  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

milium 

3  9999  06314  626  8 


-Bindery. 
NOV  23  1878