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TWENTY-FIRST
ANNUAL REPORT
1873
City Document. — JSfo. 88.
CITY OF BOSTON.
R E P O U T
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
18 7 3.
CITY OF BOSTON^.
Public Libkary, June 25, 1873.
His Honor, Henry L. Pierce, May or of the City of Boston:
Sir, — I have the honor to transmit to you, herewith, the
Twenty-first Annual Eeport of the Trustees of the Public
Library, prepared in obedience to the fourth section of the
Ordinance of 1869, relative to the Public Library.
Very respectfully,
JUSTIN WINSOR,
Secretary of the Board of Trustees.
TWENTY-FIEST ANNUAL EEPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
In couformity with the requirements of the fourth section
of an Ordinance concerning the Public Library, passed Sep-
tember 21, 1869, the Trustees have the honor to present to
the City Council their Twenty-first Annual
REPORT,
being the fourth made under the new ordinance, and in-
cluding the results of administration for the last year, in
which the Library was opened for the uses of book-borrow-
ers three hundred and eight days, and the Reading Rooms
of the Central Library and its Branches for the perusal of
periodicals and books of reference therein contained, includ-
ing twelve Sundays, three hundred and twentj' days.
The reports of the Examining Committee and of the
Superintendent are herewith appended.
The members of the Committee for the present year were
the Hon. Benjamin Dean, Eben D. Jordan, Esq., Charles C.
Smith, Esq., Rev. George H. Vibbert, Henry A. Whit-
ney, Esq., with the Hon. George S. Hillard, of the Board
of Trustees, as Chairman. This independent examination
has been carefully made. The recommendations relative to
an adequate protection from fire of the invaluable property
belonging to the city contained within the walls of the Boyls-
ton street building will, it is hoped, receive the attention which
the importance of the subject deserves. Further reference
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will be made to this point. Their judgment also in respect
to the defective arrangements of the building for many of
the purposes for which it was designed, and which the in-
creasing uses of the Library render every day more evident,
enforces the previously expressed opinions of the Trustees
as contained in former reports. In possessing themselves of
the facts of administration as comprised in the tables and
report of the Superintendent, and by personal inspection of
the working of the Central Library as well as of the Branches,
they have obtained a clear understanding of the management
and usefulness of the whole institution, of which, including
the two Branches, the examination is now first made. Suc-
cessive annual examinations, as provided by the ordinance,
of committees selected at large from our citizens, ensure to
the public unbiassed opinions upon the condition of the foun-
dation and upon its manifold relations to the public. Sug- '
gestions from this source, in the present as in former years,
are of large interest and importance.
With the increasing magnitude of the libraries, and the
new experiences called forth by the Branches, the reports of
the Superintendent increase annually in detail and in value.
No one can properly understand or appreciate the careful
oversight and the minute analysis of all the points of admin-
istration which ought to be known not only to the community,
but to every similar organization, without a careful scrutiny
of his tabular statements. The duties and responsibilities of
this devoted official increase from year to year. With the
additional charge of the Roxbury Library, to be opened
during the next month, and with the possibly impending
annexation of neighboring towns and cities containing other
libraries to be placed under the control of this Board, all
executive labor will be proportionately magnified.
Recurring to the condition of the building, and to the
inadequate accommodation, not only for the public, but also for
the administrative necessities of the Library, it is hoped and
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anticipated that some relief may be obtained, at no distant
day, by tlie adaptation to the Library's service of the estate
purchased for that purpose by the city, in the spring of 1872.
Want of room for the public curtails the circulation of the
Lower Hall, and diminishes attendance at the Heading Room.
No satisfactory plans have yet been formed for the construc-
tion upon this site of a new edifice to be attached to the main
building, which should meet any considerable portion of our
present and future requirements. When the City Govern-
ment are of the opinion that the financial condition of the
city will authorize a sufficient appropriation for the purpose,
the Trustees will endeavor to present suitable designs.
Upon the other point, of sufficient protection against fire,
the Trustees feel sensitively the dangers so strongly set forth
in the reports of the Examining Committee and of the
Superintendent. The removal of the wooden sky-lights upon
the roof of the building, and the substitution of fire-proof
coverings in their places, is now going forward, under the
direction of the Superintendent of Public Buildings. Every-
thing should be done which skill or ingenuity can dictate to
render the building; safe from outward or internal conflao;ra-
tion. The Library now contains a large number of works,
which if lost could never be replaced. The institution could
never again rise from its ashes to the wealth of its present
possessions. There must be no mistake or misunderstanding
on this point. It is the duty both of the City Government
and of the Trustees to see that everything practicable is done
to insure the permanent safety of this inestimable property.
The operations of the past year and the present condition
of the Library are briefly as follows. The whole number of
volumes at present contained in the Libraries, parent and
branches, are 209,456, of which 149,477 are in the Bates
Hall. The remainder is to be found in the circulating libraries
of the Lower Hall in Boylston street, the East Boston, South
Boston, and lioxbury Branches.. The increase of the Library
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during the year has been 14.644 volumes. The whole num-
ber of pamphlets is now 112,153, of which 11,770 have been
added dui'ing the year. The total circulation has been
467,855, being a daily average of 1,519 for home use. The
figures from the Branches are most encouraging. While
East Boston shows a circulation of 67,754, from a library of
7,291 volumes, South Boston gives a circulation of 102,322
for 5,174 volumes. The total number of names registered
as p.pplicants for the Library privileges are 53,043 ; of these
1,592 have had cards refused, principally for the reasons of
non-residency or under age, and 3,626 have not taken their
cards. 177,512 readers frequented the Periodical Reading
Room of the Central Library, who read 213,599 magazines.
The total number of books loaned and not returned has been
between 60 and 70. Most of these were taken from the
Lower Hall in Boylston street, and a portion of them may'
possibly be recovered. Thfe average loss on these figures is
one volume in every 7,000 or more loans. The total expen-
diture from the city appropriations was $86,498.01, and
$1,681.79 was paid into the City Treasury from fines and
sales of catalogues. Other important results will be found
in the tables attached to the Superintendent's Report.
The most striking novelty in the administration of the
Library has been the opening of its Periodical Reading
Rooms on Sunday, at the request of the City Council. The
event is too recent to admit of any decisive conclusions.
There is not yet occasion for discourageinent nor greatly
marked features of encoui'agement for the enterprise. The
best indications are to be found in the increasing attendance
of adults, and in the presence of a considerable number of
people who seldom or never came to the rooms on week
days. It was for this latter class specially that the I'oonis
were opened. Another year's trial will enable the Trustees
to gauge their results more accurately, and to determine
whether the advantages are in due proportion to the expense.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. 9
It is most gratifying to find that the establishment of our
Branches, as is also the experience of the large English cities,
is more successful than could have been possibly anticipated.
With the new Branch shortly to be inaugurated in Roxbury
in connection with the Fellowes AthenfBum, quite as favor-
able figures may be expected. This Library will at the out-
set possess superior advantages in having a considerable fund
to be annually expended in books«.of permanent value, all of
which, except works of reference, will be used in circulation,
bringing as it were a considerable portion of the more valu-
able modern books, published both here and in England,
such as form part of the Bates Hall collection, directly at
hand to the residents of the Highland District. In view of
the formation of these smaller libraries it is naturally found
that convenience of access creates circulation of books where
none existed before.
Like the great European Libraries, our institution finds
continued embarrassment in any catalogue system. We
have long passed the period when it was possible to print in
one alphabet, upon any intelligible system, the titles of all
the books contained in our Libraries. Such an undertaking
would be enormously expensive, and when concluded at the
end of five or ten years, the continual additions during that
period would require the whole work to be done over again.
The expedients which have been adopted in place of this
system are well known to the frequenters of the Library.
The card catalogues in the Bates Hall accessible to the pub-
lic, with the bulletins and class lists, aflbrd the needed infor-
mation, and the Hand-book prepared by the Superintendent
for the use of borrowers, indicates to every reader, how and
where he ma.y find what he wants, provided it is upon the
shelves of the institution.
The donations to the Library have been continued by its
friends during the present year, with the same liberality as
before. The report of the Examining Committee shows how
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largely it has been iudebted since its foundation to the sym-
pathetic generosity of special benefactors and the public at
large. Probably no other Library in the world has received
so many benefactions from so many different sources as this.
In this matter the Trustees would be deeply ungrateful if they
felt any distrust in the future.
The most important event of the year has been the acqui-
sition of the Barton Library, for which the negotiations were
completed just previous to its close. An account of the vol-
umes acquired, which did not come to the Library until after
the beginning of the new library year, will find an appro-
priate place in the next Report of the Trustees. It is suffi-
cient to say now that it is the most intrinsically valuable
addition yet made to the Library, and that it has placed the
institution in a position which will render it still more inval-
uable and indispensable to every cultivator of elegant letters
in the country. From the initial correspondence to the final
termination of the purchase, Mrs. Cora Livingston Barton,
the widow of Thomas P. Barton, the collector of the Library,
conducted herself with a liberality founded on generous im-
pulses and a large cultivation. For the purpose of fulfilling
the expressed wishes of Mr. Barton, and of keeping the
Library together as one collection, and in placing it within
the means of our institution, she undoubtedly made a large
pecuniary sacrifice. In her sudden death the Trustees expe-
rienced a sense of personal loss. Indeed, the whole transac-
tion was as creditable to her as it was advantageous to the
city. It is most gratifying to the Trustees to place upon
record their acknowledgment of the intelligence and public
spirit of the City Government, which so promptly and deci-
sively secured this magnificent acquisition.*
In Appendix No. 23 will be found an enumeration of the
employes of the institution, from which some idea may be
* See Appendix for further details.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. 11
gained of the multifarious work carried on in the Central
Library and its Branches. Great activity is necessary in
order to keep pace with the daily requirements of its service.
The books as purchased and obtained must be as rapidly as
possible collated, classified, shelved, catalogued, and made
ready for use. The Library has been fortunate in securing
the services of so many accomplished and skilful assistants,
both male and female. In fact, there is no position in the
world where a large knowledge of language and literature,
with systematic habits of application is of more value than in
the administration of a great Library.
In an educational point of view it is no exaggeration to
say that the largest expectations of the founders of the Li-
brary have been more than fulfilled. The liberality of the
City Government, and the intelligent generosity of private
benefactors have established a store of learning and knowl-
edge which has substantially supplemented, as well as
strengthened and developed, most forms of progress known
to modern civilization. It has attracted to itself the sympa-
thetic aid and frequent use, not only of the so-called profes-
sions, but also of other laborers in science and art, whether
engaged in the duties of instruction, or in the practical appli-
cation of their accomplishments to the daily wants of life.
But beyond this the increase of the Library has received a
vigorous impulse from the specialists, who have confined
themselves to narrower fields of work, the outgrowth of
some larger classification. Although all departments are not
filled in the same proportion, continuous attention will be
paid till such a result shall be measurably obtained. It has
placed within reach of our schools and colleges knowledge
beyond the instruction of teachers ; it has assisted in forming
a taste for reading and for culture among many to whom the
chances of life had previously denied such an opportunity.
Few should be the homes in the City of Boston which should
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not have experienced its tangible benefits, and whose inmates
have not reason to bless the intelligence which renders its
existence a public necessity.
WILLIAM W. GREENOUGH,
G. S. HILLARD,
GEORGE PUTNAM,
WESTON LEWIS,
SAMUEL A. GREEN,
DANIEL S. CURTIS,
JOHN T. CLARK,
W. E. PERKINS,
CHARLES A. BURDITT.
Public Librakt, 24th June, 1873.
(A.)
EEPOKT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE.
The Committee, appointed in accordance with the pro-
visions of the sixth section of an Ordinance in relation to the
Public Library, " to examine the condition of the Library
and report to the Trustees," have made an examination of the
Central Library, and the Branches at East Boston and South
Boston, and of the building erected for the use of the Rox-
bury Branch, and respectfully submit the results of their
investigation.
In examining the several buildings, the Committee have
regarded it as their first duty to ascertain how far the build-
ings have been made tire-proof, and whether any alterations
are needed to provide further security to the books against
injury by fire or water. At the present time the pecuniary
value of the books in the Central Library alone caimot be
estimated at less than half a million of dollars ; but this sum
very imperfectly represents the loss which would be sustained
by the destruction of the Library. To give but a single illus-
tration : the Prince Library, which was deposited with the
Trustees in 1866, contains about 1,900 volumes, and is of
inestimable value to the student of American history ; but so
rare are many of the volumes that probably no amount of
money would enable the Trustees to duplicate them. This is
true also of portions of other collections which have from
time to time been given to the city. Their loss would be
irreparable, and without them any one wishing to prosecute
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thorough and exact inquiries in history or science would have
to go elsewhere for his most important materials.
In view of the new light which recent experience has
thrown on the combustible character of buildings heretofore
regarded as fire-proof, the Committee are unanimously of
opinion that the Central Library is not adequately protected
against fire, and that immediate attention ought to be given
to this matter. The special arrangements which they
recommend are the following : —
1. That the common glass sky-lights in the roof should be
replaced by Hyatt lights, or by heavy rough glass set in an
iron frame and protected by a raised wire netting.
2. That the central lantern should be provided with heavy
iron shutters, to be closed from the outside.
3. That double iron shutters, with a water or air chamber
between the inner and outer part, should be placed on all the
windows opening toward Tremont street.
4. That the present water-pipes should be extended to the
top of the building, so that a hand-hose can be attached and
used for wetting the roof.
5. That suitable apparatus should be placed on the out-
side of the building, both in front and rear, for rapidly
hoisting hose to the roof in case of any large fire in the
neighborhood.
The building erected for the use of the Roxbury Branch is
the property of the Trustees of the Fellowes Athenaeum. The
estate on which it stands is bounded on three sides by public
streets, and beside this advantage it is so far from other
buildings that no anxiety need be felt at present for its
safety. The Committee are glad to add that it is a model of
convenient arrangement, and is well worth the examination
of persons interested in town libraries. Built at a moderate
cost, it makes no pretension to architectural beauty, but is
admirably adapted to the use for which it was designed. At
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a small additional expense it can be shelved to contain about
100,000 volumes.
The South Boston Branch is located in the second story of
a stone and brick building at the corner of Broadway and E
street. There are no iron shutters on the building, aud on
two sides it is exposed to danger from fire communicating
from the adjacent buildings. But as the Library is only one
of several tenants, and the collection at the present time
numbers little more than 5,000 volumes, which could be du-
plicated at a comparatively small cost, the Committee do not
recommend any further expenditure by the City Government,
until the wants of the Branch shall justify the erection of a
building specially devoted to its use.
A similar remark will apply to the East Boston Branch,
which occupies a part of the old Lyman School-house, in Me-
ridian street. It is, however, less exposed to danger from fire
than the South Boston Branch ; and as the city owns the land
and building, suitable accommodations can readily be pro -
vided whenever the increase of the Library shall render a
reconstruction of the building desirable.
The Committee regard the establishment of these Branches
with great favor, as adding largely to the usefulness of the
Library. They not only contain books of a similar character to
those in the Lower Hall in Boylston street, but by means of
the daily communication which has been established Avith the
Central Library, books from either of its departments can be
obtained by application at the Branch.
The i-eport of every Examiniiig Committee since 1864 has
referred with more or less of detail to the defects of the plan
adopted in the erection of the building in Boylston street.
This Committee have likewise been impressed by these de-
fects, which even the large capacity for organization, and the
great executive ability of the present Superintendent have
not been able to overcome. The extensive alterations made
within the last two years have nearly doubled the shelf-room.
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9
both in the Lower Hall and in the Bates Hall, and have pro-
vided improved, though still inadequate accommodations for
some of the emplojes connected with the former. But in
other respects the wx)rk of the Libiaiy is carried on under
great and increasing disadvantages, which can be remedied
only by an enlargement of the building. Much of the un-
packing, collating, cataloguing, and marking is now per-
formed in the galleries and alcoves, and in the south-
eastern tower, used also as a stairway. The rooms for the
Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent are so
cramped and crowded with the necessary furniture and books
of reference as greatly to interfere with the discharge of their
respective duties. Additional closets, wash-basins, and
other conveniences for the employes, now numbering about
fifty persons, are also needed. There is no room for meetings
of the Trustees. The only room available for the examina-'
tion of the Foreign and American Patents, which now extend
to more than 2,000 volumes, and are in almost constant use, is
so small that not more than two or three persons can easily
consult them at the same time. The bindery, which occupies
a portion of the basement, is much too small for the necessary
work of the Library. The newspaper-room, which is also in
the basement, is dark, damp, and badly ventilated ; and no
one can contrast it with the small, but convenient, newspaper-
room recently fitted up by the Massachusetts Historical
Society without a feeling of regret that this room is the only
one in the Public Library which can be appropriated to this
important use. If the public are to derive the fullest benefit
from the Library, these defects, which do not fall under the
notice of an occasional visitor, should be remedied at the
earliest practicable opportunity.
In the judgment of the Committee, it would also be much
better if separate rooms could be provided for large and
valuable collections, like the recently acquired Barton Li-
brary, the Parker Library, and some others. Heretofore
these collections have been placed in separate alcoves, or
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distinct portions of the galleries, appropriately inscribed ;
and the Committee are informed that the same conrse will be
pursued with regard to the books in the Barton Liln-ary.
The acquisition of this Library, so rich in Shakespeariuna
and in other departments of dramatic literature, was the
great event in the history of the Public Library during the
past year. As the volumes have not yet been unpacked, only
a few of them have come under the examination of the Com-
mittee ; but the great value of the collection has long been
known through the elaborate description in Dr. Wynne's
Libraries of New York. The Committee desire to congratu-
late the Trustees and the public on this important addition
to the treasures of the Library.
It is a noteworthy fact that with the exception of this pur-
chase almost the whole strength of the Library comes from
the direct gift of individuals, or from the income of trust-
funds specially given for this purpose. At the very outset
Mr. Bates gave about 26,000 volumes ; the Bowditch,
Parker, Ticknor, and Prince Lil)raries (the last of which,
however, is only deposited with the Trustees) contain 20,-
326 volumes ; and during their lives Mr. Everett and Mr.
Ticknor, by whom the original plan for the organization of
the Library is understood to have been drawn up, gave
3,587 volumes and 5,673 volumes respectively, exclusive of
an immense mass of pamphlets. Indeed, of the whole num-
ber of volumes in the Library at the present time, 209,456,
exclusive of the Barton collection, nearly one half, 92,333
volumes, are set down as gifts. If to this number are added
the volumes purchased from the income of the trust funds,
it will be seen how largely the Library is indebted to private
munificence. Liberal as have been the appropriations of the
City Government, and they have been unstinted, even more
has come from other sources. No one who has been fimiliar
with the history of the Library from that clay of small things,
when it was first opened to the public in the lower floor of
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the Mason street School-house, can fail to bo amazed at its
rapid and healthy growth. For the whole cost of its ad-
ministration the Library is of course indebted to the annual
appropriations of the City Government.
The volumes are all in good condition, with the exception
of the usual amount of injury to the books of a more popu-
lar character which circulate from the Lower Hall and the
Branch Libraries, and of a few volumes in one of the galleries
of the Bates Hall, where the old bindings have been destroyed
by the heat and foul air. The Committee are by no means
confident that such a system of ventilation can be introduced
as will obviate this evil ; but the subject is one worthy of
investigation.
The cataloguing has been regularly kept up, and the Ac-
cession Lists, the Shelf Lists, and the Card Catalogue are
all that can be desired in those departments. Four numbers
of the Library Bulletin have also been issued during the
year, and have proved of much service to readers. In 1858,
the Index to the Lower Hall Catalogue was issued ; and this
was followed, in 1861, by the Index to the Bates Hall Cata-
logue, and in 1866 by a Supplement to the latter. These
three volumes were prepared under the direction of the late
Professor Jewett, at that time Superintendent of the Library,
and form a fit memorial of the bibliographical knowledge and
thoroughness of research which that accomplished scholar
brought to the discharge of his task. In 1870, the excel-
lent Catalogue of the Prince Library was issued ; a Catalogue
of the Ticknor Library is in preparation ; and by the con-
tract for the purchase of the Barton Library, a Catalngue of
that collection must be printed within four years. But the
long-expected third vokune of the Bates Hall Catalogue has
not yet been put to press. The Committee are aware that
the tendency of opinion among librarians at the present time
is against the issuing of printed Catalogues ; but in view of
the great number of students who cannot go to the Library
PUBLIC LIBRARY. 19
every time they wish to ascertain whether it contains some
book of which they have need, it is to be hoped the time
will never come when the Trustees will not include within the
plan of their operations the issuing of consolidated catalogues
as often as the growth of the Library ma}'" require. To no
better use could the City appropriations be applied ; and for
it the appropriations should be freely granted.
Complaint in regard to the sensational character of some of
the juvenile books in the Library has come to the knowledge
of the Committee ; but they are not able, from their OAvn
examination, to say how far these complaints have a solid
foundation. They accordingly recommend the subject to the
consideration of the Trustees. They are, however, of the
opinion that a closer scrutiny should be made, and a stricter
rule should be observed, as to the character of books pur-
chased for the juvenile department, than would be proper in
the case of books ordered at the request of adult readers.
No doubt a large part of the juvenile literature of the day is
of a very unprofitable, if not pernicious, character : it does
not afford healthful amusement, and it is not instructive.
But it is possible to select from the immense mass of juvenile
books some which are harmless, and at the same time not
uninteresting to the youthful reader. That the excessive
reading of works of fiction is an evil will not be denied, and
in the case of school children it is a very great evil ; but in
their case the remedy is in the hands of parents and guar-
dians, and not with the managers of a public library. It is
not easy to see how they could frame rules to prevent the
abuse of its privileges, without narrowing its scope and prac-
tically limiting its usefulness.
From records kej^t by the Superintendent, it appears that
the number of persons who use the reading-rooms on Sunday
is more than half as large as the number using them on other
days ; and that a very large proportion are persons who use
the Library only on Sunday. N-o case of improper conduct
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has been reported ; and no injury has been done to the build-
ings or the periodicals. The result of the experiment thus
far has probably disappointed the expectations of those who
took extreme views on one side or the other of this much-
vexed question ; but the Committee regard it as highly satis-
factory, and as fully justifying the increased cost of carrying
on the Library.
GEORGE S. HILLARD,
BENJ. DEAN,
E. D. JORDAN,
CHARLES C. SMITH,
GEORGE H. VIBBERT,
HENRY A. WHITNEY.
Boston, June 16, 1873.
[B.]
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT,
To the Trustees : —
Gentlemen, — I herewith present my sixth annual report,
nd begging to refer you to the tables in the ai:)penclix for the
body of the information, which you have a right to expect, I
shall touch here but a few points that need further elucidation.
THE CENTRAL BUILDING.
The alterations of the easterly alcoves of the Bates Hall,
in progress at the date of the last report, were completed so
that the books were restored to their places between Sept.
27th and Oct. 20th, and after some supplemental work on
the western alcoves, by November 25th the circulation, in all
its classifications, was resumed. The gain to the Librarj- by
these alterations was fully explained last year.
Work was begun in the Low^er Hall August 18th, by erect-
ing supplemental cases on the main floor, into which the
books in the galleries were removed September 30th, when a
temporary ceiling was laid over these cases, and above this, the
work of cutting up the windows, and flooring the new apart-
ments went on with little interruption to the business of the
Library. The work was completed and the rooms occupied
on the first of January. The annexed plan will repre-
sent clearly the new disposition of the various oflSces.
82 fl '
NEW HALF-STORY
Over llie IjOwer Ilall, coiin<'C'ting with the old ITalf-story (Storo-room, etc.)
over tlie Lower U:iU ])elivcry lioom.
K — Elcvutor. n — Uoisting Apparatus.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. 23
The gain from this new arrangement is all that was
expected, — a much greater rapidity of delivery of the books
from one floor ; and an extent and convenience of offices
which were never before enjoyed.
The fire of November last led to a survey of the building,
and under a decision reached not long afterwards, the roof of
the building is to be made practically fire-proof. The win-
dows of the main lantern will be protected by iron shutters ;
and the ordinary sky-lights over the upper alcoves will be
replaced by heavier glass, with honeycomb settings. Means
are also to be provided for hoisting hose to the roof without
dragging it through the interior of the building. I look, how-
ever, upon Hotel Pelham as a standing menace, that ren-
ders the most particular precautions advisable. A number
of fire-extinguishers, as an additional safeguard, have also
been placed in the building. An outer row of iron shutters
on the side windows, by providing an air-chamber, would
aiford further security ; but the present shutters are at such
distance from the sashes, that wet sail-cloth or blankets placed
in the interval will probably furnish good protection in case
great heat should curl the shutters. The janitor makes a
monthly report upon the condition of all appliances for
guarding against and subduing a fire.
It should be added that, during the winter, two agents from
the office of Inspector of Buildings have examined the steam-
heating apparatus to see if the Library was under any dan-
ger from super-heated steam ; and have pronounced the build-
ing free from danger, except at one point, which was at once
attended to.
THE SOUTH BOSTON BRANCH.
The first year's experience with this Branch has shown a
success, as compared with the operations of the East Boston
Branch, proportionate to the difference in the population of
the two sections of the city. • While South Boston has a
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population about half as large again as that of East Boston,
the number of people registering for the first j^ear, and the
extent of the circulation has been in much the same relations,
and the immunity from loss has been nearly as favorable.
The formal dedication of this Branch took place, May
16th, 1872, the Mayor presiding, and included an address
by the President of the Trustees and others. A full account
of the proceedings has been printed as a City document.
The Trustees of the Hawes Fund, having established a
School of Art in the same building, have kindly placed a
number of their casts upon brackets about the Library rooms,
adding much to their attractiveness.
THE ROXBURY BRANCH.
As explained in the appendix of the last Annual Report,
the enforced sale of the lot on Bartlett street, on which
the Trustees of the Fellowes Athenj?eum had begun the
erection of a Library building for the use of this Branch, has
prevented the inauguration of this department duriug the
year now closed ; and the date of opening, which will be not
far from the beginning of July, is at least six months later
than was anticipated.
A new site having been secured on Millmont street, with
the rear on Lambert street, and bounding laterally on Lam-
bert avenue, embracing 15,930 feet of land, the work of re-
construction — in good part with material got out for the
structure planned for the original site — begun in the
autumn. The plans as originally designed have been sub-
stantially carried out on the new ground, though a consider-
able slope from the front has compelled the lowering of the
altitude of the rear portion, containing the Librarj' room, while
at the same time it has given a high and well-lighted basement
room beneath in place of a low cellar. A private door
enterinii' from the outside on the side where the Librarian's
PUBLIC Library. 25
room is situated, and into the space between that and the
Trustees' room, as marked on the plans given in the hist
report, is the only other material change. The public are
under oblis^ations to the architect and building committee of
the Fellowes Trustees for the willing alacrity with which they
have adopted every suggestion, derived from our experience ;
and I feel confident the result will be, that in convenience of
arrangement and adaptation to all the purposes of a popular
public library, the building of the Roxbur}^ Branch will
be among the few Library structures in the country th;it
embody typical features in due proportion and proper
subordination. This will be a matter for constant gratu-
lation.
Moreover, the citizens of Roxbury are under great
obligations to S. C. Thwing, Esq., the Treasurer of the
Fellowes Fund, for the original instigation, that resulted in
the bequest, by which they thus are peculiarly benefited over
the other sections of the city.
In forming a collection for this Branch, about 700 volumes
were taken in nearly equal proportions from the shelf-
duplicates of the Lower Hall and from the Duplicate Room,
and to these something over 3,000 had been added, mostly
by purchase, up to the 30th of April, on account of the City's
appropriation, while to the same date, 865 of the more
expensive books had been bought with the money of the
Fellowes Fund, making a total of over 4,600 volumes. The
Branch will open with something over 5,000 volumes, all
of which will have been catalogued and otherwise prepared
for the shelves by the time the building is ready to receive
them.
Note. — The books were removed to the new building on the 20th and 21st
of June ; the Reading Room for Periodicals was opened to the public on the
23d; and the delivery of the books begun on the IGth of July.
4
26 CITY DOCUMENT. No. 88.
THE BOOKS.
If we add the Barton Library (purchased, but not received
at the end of the Library year) to the fi^^ures of the
extent of the collections, shown in appendix I, it will be
found that more than 220,000 volumes is the result, which
is just double the extent of the Library ten years ago. The
Library of Congress still surpasses it, but the Astor
Library has only about an equal extent with the Bates Hall
collection. The Library seems now to be having a normal
increase of about 12,000 to 15,000 volumes a year. Should
the acts of the Legislature annexing Charlestown, Brookline,
Brighton, and West Roxbury find favor with the people,
three ncAv branches — being the existing public libraries in
all but the last-named place — will, within a year, be added
to our system, bringing to our aggregate something like
35,000 or 40,000 volumes, and swelling the total under the
control of the Trustees to nearly 275,000 volumes, — an
extent likely to place the Boston Public Library at the head
of all American libraries in the aggregate of its collections,
as it is already in the value and usefulness of them.
The list of donors in Appendix XI is a continued proof of
the good-will which is cherished towards the Library by citi-
zens and remoter friends.
The increasing magnitude of the labor attending the or-
dering and receiving of books for all the departments of the
Library has justified the division of the Library Service,
which will appear in Appendix XXIII, by which the fiiithful
assistant of the Superintendent in this duty is assigned to
the responsible head of a new department, kept heretofore
as an adjunct of the Catalogue Department.
The Library sufiered a small loss of books in a bindery in
Hawley street, by the fire of November last ; and the Italian
invoice for the year, embracing a complete set of the public
PUBLIC LIBEARY. Zi
documents of the Italian government since 1848, upon the
collection of which considerable pains had been expended,
was on board the ship Charlotte, from Leghorn, which was
wrecked on Bermuda reefs, in March. Insurance will be
recovered in both cases. The Italian books, it proved, were
saved, though damaged, and were sold for salvage, and the
purchaser has offered them to the Library at one-quarter of
the original cost, and his offer is under consideration.
CIRCULATION OF BOOKS.
I refer to the full figures of Appendix XII, where it will
be seen that the grand total of issues approximates to half
a million volumes. I look during the coming A'ear, for a
larger use of the Bates Hall than ever before. The last
month of the year showed that the circulation, which it main-
tained before the alterations, had been restored, and it will
naturally increase.
In the Lower Hall there was no perceptible diminution of
use, from the withdrawal of readers living at East Boston,
during the first year after the opening of the Branch in that
district. It was too remote from Boylston street to allow
its inhabitants to be c(mstant frequenters of the Central
Liljrarj', and the use which the new Branch got was almost
entirely from readers never before enjoying the privileges of
the Library. With South Boston the case was difierent. There
was far greater convenience of access for its residents to the
Central Library, the drain upon whose frequenters was so
severe, that the new retainers on our registration roll have
not been able to make the loss good. The loss from last
3'ear is, however only about 16,000 issues, while the gain to
the Library from the issues at the South Boston Branch has
been over 102,000. The natural recuperative power of our
circulation will probably more than regain during the coming
28 CITY DOCUMENT. No. 88.
year, what has been lost, were no other new Branch to inter-
fere ; but the opening of the Roxbury Branch is likely to
produce the same temporary stay npon the accumulative
tendency of our statistics for the Lower Hall. The check
will, however, be but temporary.
'To counteract any such tendency, late in the year an
additional hour was added to the available time for the
delivery of books, by closing the Lower Hall at 9 o'clock,
P.M. instead of 8 o'clock P.M. Coiucidentally the service
of this department has been modified somewhat, the hour of
dismissal of the attendants being now uniformly at 7 o'clock
( except on Saturdays) , instead of varying from 6 o'clock to
8'clock, as before, and a new force has l)een organized for
evening service, as will be seen by Appendix XXHI.
It should be stated however that the use of the South
Boston Branch is not alone the occasion of the loss in our
Lower Hall circulation. A very perceptible falling oif has
been owing to an apprehension with some, during a part of the
year, that the circulation of the Library was accountable m
some way for the spreading of the small-pox. In all cases
when it was known that books had been in houses where
the infection existed, they were properly disposed of, when
returned. It is worthy of remark that not one in the
Library service was attacked by the disease.
For a week or two after the fire of November last the
circulation was ver}^ materially checked ; and consider-
able diminution was observable during the continuance of the
Peace Jubilee of June and July, 1872.
USE OF PERIODICALS.
Referring to Appendix XX, I may add that the same
reasons have afiected the. slight diminution in the use of the
Central Reading Room, which has been referred to in con-
nection with the circulation of books.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. 29
Acting upon a request of the City Council, the Trustees
ordered the opening of the Reading Rooms for Periodicals on
Sundays, from 2 P. M. to 9 P. M., and this was done for
the first time, February 9th. The use has been from one-
half to three-quarters of the average week-day use. The
frequenters have been uniformly decorous ; and the most
favorable feature of the results is, that a large proportion of
the Sunday visitors are not such as are seen in the rooms on
week-da}' s. After a brief interval of scrutiny among those
interested favorably or adversely in the experiment, this
inroad upon old custom has passed from all active obser-
vation and the bulii of the population probably neither
know nor care about the practice ; leaving a comparatively
small number of people to find a satisfaction in the privilege
that sufficiently pays for the attendant outlay.
CATALOGUES.
In pursuance of a policy of guiding rather than forcing the
public taste in the selection of books, the past year has been
significant in the publication of two different helps to this
end.
First. In August a new Hand-book for Readers was issued,
including the regulations, a description of the possessions of
the Librar}^ most likely to interest the curious, with a brief
summary of its history. Its distinctive feature, however, was
a full description of the catalogues, with directions how to
use them, and lists of books classified under various subject
heads, calculated to acquaint the reader with the simplest
methods of bibliographical research. Before the year closed,
an edition of 5,000 had been distributed, and a second
amended edition is now in press.
Second. The scope of the new Lower Hall Class List for
History, Biography and Travel, has, in its progress through
the press, been much enlarged. • In addition to the features
30 CITY DOCUMENT. No. 88.
mentioned in the Keport for last year, notes have been
appended to all the subject-references of importance,
which sometimes give concisely the history of the
literature of the subjects, and often afford indications of
the beariig and purposes of particular books, — the aim being
to give assistance to persons looking for books under sub-
jects. Constant reference has also being made to the
Catalogues of the Bates Hall, with the hope that the user of
the Library will thus learn better how the two collections
can be made to supplement one another. While it cannot
but be believed that good will come of this innovation in
the style of popular catalogues, there can be no doubt that
personal attention to the wants of unskilful users of the
catalogues would accomplish much more ; but other duties
prevent any of the officers making it a special object. This
latter work is an excellent field for a humanitarian of tact
and the requisite knowledge, who could counsel without
dogmatism or personal bias, if such a one could be found to
devote his mornings and evenings among the scores and
hundreds of inexperienced frequenters of the Library halls.
The publication of this catalogue has been delayed by the
increasing labor, and by the misfortune of November last,
much beyond what was anticipated. It was thought to have
been half carried through the press when the entire edition
up to that point was destroyed in the great fire. The reprinting
of that portion, however, has given the opportunity for much
improving it, and it is now hoped that it will be in the hands
of the public during August. It has proved so extensive that
the original project of appending to it a second edition of
the Chronological List of Historical Fiction has been
abandoned, and that work must find an independent issue.
A second edition of the list of periodicals currently
received in the Central Library has likewise been printed,
and brief discriminations of the character of the several
PUBLIC LDBRART. 31
periodicals added to the titles in cases where it was
necessary.
A supplemental List of the Tosti Engravings, including
those framed in the lower floor of the Central Library, and
not included already in the List of Portraits, has been pre-
pared by Mr. Whitney, the Principal Assistant of the Librarj'-,
to whom has been entrusted with confidence this critical
labor. The present issue completes the work.
The general work of this department, including the issue
of four Bulletins, has gone forward satisfactorily under the
immediate direction of Mr. Wheeler, its accomplished head.
Respectfully submitted,
JUSTIN WINSOR,
Superintendent.
Public Library, June 2d, 1873.
APPENDIXES
TO THE
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
1873
LIST or APPENDIXES.
I. Extent of the Library (by Years).
II. Yearly Increase by Purchase and Donation.
III. Extent of the Bates Hall Collection.
IV. Extent of the Lower Hall Collection.
V. Sale Duplicates, etc.
VI. Increase of the several Departments.
VII. Increase from Newly Published Books.
VIII. Volumes Located in Bates Hall.
IX. Bates Hall Classifications.
X. Lower Hall Classifications.
XI. Donors.
XII. Circulation.
XIII. Books Keturned in Lower Hall.
XIV. Registration of Applicants.
XV. Books Recommended. Use of British Patents,
XVI. Bates Hall Reading.
XVII. Lower Hall Reading.
XVIII. East Boston Reading.
XIX. South Boston Reading.
XX. Periodical Reading Rooms.
XXI. Losses and Delinquents.
XXII. Financial Statement.
XXIII. Library Service.
XXIV. Report on the Examination of the Shelves.
XXV. Work in the Library Bindbey.
XXVI. The Barton Library.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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APPENDIX I.
EXTENT OF THE LIBRARY, BY YEARS.
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Note. — The aggregate of pamphlets "added from the begmning " includes many since bound, singly or
1 groups (which are now counted among volumes), and a very large number of duplicates, which are thrown out
nd put among the pamphlot= held for cxrhana-c.
3(5
CITY DOCUMENT. No. 88.
APPENDIX II.
YEARLY INCREASE OF THE WHOLE LIBRARY BY PURCHASE
AND BY GIFTS.
Tears.
1852-53
1853-54
1854-55
1855-56
1856-57
1857-58
1858-59
1859-60
1860-61
1861-62
1862-63
1863-64
1864-65
1865-66
1866-67
1867-68
1868-69
1869-70
1870-71
1871-72
1872-73
Increase.
(i^e< after 1861.)
Gifts.
(SeeApp. IX.)
Purchases in-
cluding those
charged to funds.
Vols.
Pamph.
Vols.
Pamph.
Vols.
JPamph .
9,688
961
4,000
961
5,688
6,533
2,989
2,152
2,989
4,381
6,396
2,557
2,663
2,468
3,733
89
5,463
5,879
1,865
5,330
3,598
549
6,816
3,667
1,686
3,646
5,130
21
*35,955
1,885
30,214
1,885
5,741
7,192
1,317
3,405
1,317
3,787
6,989
1,452
3,744
1,452
3,245
. . .
tl6,948
6,674
12,299
6,656
4,649
18
7,391
1,493
1,274
1,493
6,117
. . .
5,.529
2,169
829
1,958
4,700
212
6,226
2,939
1,081
2,772
6,145
167
6,082
1,516
804
1,026
5,178
490
7,662
4,013
1,476
3,342
6,286
671
5,303
7,877
1,465
7,769
7,732
108
7,673
2,811
1,554
2,513
6,396
298
8,685
13,923
2,138
10,984
6,531
2,939
7,775
13,593
1,646
10,228
6,129
3,366
§18,099
14,976
9,750
10,805
8,349
4,171
1113,708
10,637
4,349
5,831
9,359
4,806
14,644
11,770
3,939
8,060
10,705
3,710
Fello'es
Athenae
um.
Vols.
Donors,
exclud-
ing
anony-
mous.
**865
75
105
153
126
132
381
247
207
242
234
194
219
328
336
800
342
649
665
604
610
601
* Of these, 24,618 were the Bates gift.
t Of these, 11,721 were the Parker hequest.
. I Includes pamjihlets added both by purchase and exchange, as taken from the Accession
Catalogue. The large number of recent years has been occasioned by the systematic com-
pletion of serials and periodicals for the Central Library, as well as for the Branches.
§ Including 3,774 volumes of the Ticknor bequest, and 2,682 from the Sumner Library
Association.
II Including 1,471 volumes from the Mattapan Literary Association.
** Included in previous columns. These volumes are not the property of the Public
Library, but form a part of the Roxbury Branch by agreement.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
37
APPEISTDIX III.
EXTENT OF THE BATES HALL COLLECTION IN VOLUMES.
1867.
1868.
1869.
18'ro.
1871.
1873.
1873.
The General Library ....
87,658
93,553
101,428
107,724
115,232
121,709
126,207
j|2,120
2,542
11,907
1,970
3,907
Bowditch Library*
Parker Library*
Prince Library
2,542
tll,907
1,'J52
2,542
11,907
1,952
2,542
11,907
1,962
2,542
11,907
1,952
2,542
11,907
tl,970
3,774
2,542
11,907
1,970
§3,907
Entered on tlie Accession
Catalogue, but not yet
1,078
1,327
140
294
361
651
829
105,737
111,281
117,969
2
124,419
135,786
142,686
1
149,482
6
Total
105,737
111,281
117,967
124,419
135,786
142,685
149.477
* See Appendix IX.
t Including 186 duplicates, whicli are boxed and stored in the basement.
t Including 18 vols, of MSB.
§ Includes 31 vols, of MSS. as bound. When received they were mostly in stitched
brocliures, several of which are now bound in one volume. The remainder of the difl'ercnce
between these figures and those for the previous year, arose from some discrepancy in the
count of pamphlets destined for volumes.
II Divided into 1,791 volumes for the English ; 130 volumes for the American; and 199
volumes for the French specifications and drawings. Included previously in the General
Library. Now in charge of a special Curator.
** Purchased, but not yet received and enumerated.
Note. — Of the volumes lost from the Bates Hall some reappear each year, while a few
in excess disappear, increasing the aggregate loss a little; so that it is probable the figures
of the Bates Hall collection ai-e a trifle in excess of what an actual count would indicate.
38
CITY DOCUMENT. No. 88.
APPENDIX TV.
EXTENT OF THE LOWER HALL COLLECTION.
1867,
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
Reported the preceding year .
Added during the year . . .
25,199
2,003
26,606
2,469
28,723
1,417
29.909
2,780
30,574
2,614
31,827
1,799
Total
27,202
339
29,075
93
30,140
19
32,689
23
859
1,233
33,188
7
535
819
33,626
Books transferred to Bates
Hall
1
342
Condemned during the year .
257
259
212
67S
Total left
*25,199
26,606
28,723
29,909
30,574
31,827
32,605
*
Actual (
;ount.
Note. — There have been since the last actual count In 1867, perhaps a hundred
volumes irrecoverably lost in the Lower Hall. Perhaps an ei^ual number are to be classed
as '' unaccounted for," but may reappear.
APPENDIX y.
SALE DUPLICATES AND ODD VOLUMES.
{^'^ot including the Parker duplicates, or a large lot of odd and imperfect volumes of books,
not likelij to have the missing volumes supplied, which are boxed up at intervals.)
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
1878.
1873.
Number at beginning of year,
Added during the year . . .
4,955
714
5,146
1,004
5,805
847
6,106
443
383
6,954
996
7,314
1,375
5,669
523
6,150
345
6,662
546
6,549
304
234
7,950
636
8,689
t506
Total
5,146
5,805
6,106
6,245
*6,954
*7,314
*8,183
* This number is by an actual count of the serviceable volumes now arranged in our
Duplicate Room ; and it includes three hundred and eighty-one volumes of British Sessional
documents, ready for exchange. *
t Of these, one hundred and forty-five were exchanged and three hundred and sixty-one
sent to the Roxbury Branch. A considerable number of odd and imperfect volumes, of
which no account is made, have been sent to the City quarantine boat.
Note. — There are also of pamphlets some thirty thousand duplicates, arranged and
ready for exchanges. Libraries are invited to make such exchanges.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
39
APPEiSTDIX YI.
INCREASE OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
1868.
18G9.
1870.
isri.
1873.
1873.
Gain in located b'ks(App. VIII.)
Of these not located at last Re-
6,297
1,678
7,475
1,327
6,296
140
7,508
294
10,384
4,135
6,622
651
Added and located
Added and not located ....
4.619
1,327
6.148
140
6,156
294
7,214
4,135
6,249
651
5,971
829
1
5,946
6,288
2
6,450
11,349
6,900
1
6,800
5
5,946
6,290
6,450
11,349
6,899
6,795
1
Gain in located books
Less transfers and condemned
2,003
596
2,469
352
1,417
231
2,780
2,115
2,614
1,361
1,799
1,021
fe ^
H
1,407
2,117
1,186
665
1,253
778
254
g-i^
1=^
fe; Net gain
254
Gain by addition
Less loss by exchanges, etc.
*^ [ Net gain
1,375
506
5,936
881
50
621
97
^|<!
2^
5,936
831
524
Gain in located books
Condemned and lost .
^ [ Net gain
885
76
40
CITY DOCUMENT.
No. 88.
APPENDIX VI, Continued.
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
18T8.
1873.
.
r Gain in city part
3,754
4
<
Condemned and lost
s
Net gain
3,750
865
Z'
Fellowes Athenasum
»s
Total gain
<§
4,615
' Bates Hall gain
Lower Hall gain
5,946
1,407
6,290
2,117
6,450
1,186
11,349
665
6,899
1,253
6,795
778
254
Duplicate Room gain
659
301
139
149
5,936
360
831
4,365
869
524
^
809
3,750
,«
665
g
8,012
8,708
7,775
18,099
13,708
14,644
APPENDIX VII.
INCREASE EROM NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS.
English Books with British
imprint
English Books with American
unprint
English Books with Conti-
nental imprint
Foreign Books
Duplicates of either class,
when not included in the
other items
Total
1867.
635
1,154
104
539
2,529
1868.
1,445
100
673
2,926
1869.
625
1,455
80
789
3,396
1870.
811
1,411
50
487
3,007
1871.
899
2,206
48
561
4,194
1873,
1,096
3,642
115
891
5,744
1873.
1,389
4,301
291
1,064
7,045
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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APPENDIX YIII.
VOLUMES LOCATED IN BATES HALL, BY MONTHS.
Months.
1868-69.
1869-70.
1870-71.
1871-78.
1878-7.3.
May
758
509
1,037
383
713
866
443
639
626
563
521
417
347
833
697
763
632
834
633
382
1,175
727
480
462
520
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546
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455
464
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518
511
295
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June
584
July
631
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September
October
457
520
November
489
646
658
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551
April
492
Total
7,475
6,296
7,508
10,384
6,622
Pamphlet volumes ar-
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385
Note. — These monthly figures are the results of tables made out year by year, like the
one constituting Appendix VI for 1889. The figures for May, June and July, 1868-69, should
follow those for April of the same year. They were misplaced to adapt the table to a
change of the Library year.
* 3,876 are books of the Ticknor Library, then assigned to permanent places,
t Includes 31 vols, of the Ticknor MSS.
Pamphlets. During the year the Curator of pamphlets has rearranged all the loose
pamphlets by subjects, etc., in the new Cabinet Room; and such as were duplicates and not
needed have been arranged in adjacent apartments.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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APPEN^DIX XI.
LIST OP DONORS, 1872-73.
Bates, Joshua, London, interest on the fund of . . ^50,000
Bigelow, Hon. John P., " " " . . 1,000
Franklin Club, <i ^^ u . . i,000
Lawrence, Hon. Abbott, " " " . . 10,000
Philips, Hon. Jonathan, " " " . . 30,000
Ticknor, George, " " " . . 4,000
Townsend, Mary P., " " " . . 4,000
$100,000
DONATIONS MAY 1, 1872, TO APRIL 30, 1873.
Donors (excluding anonymous), ..... 601
Volumes, 3,939
Pamphlets, 8,060
Abbe, Rev. Frederic R.,
Advocate Publishing Company, Jackson, Tenti., 1 news-
paper, ........
Alabama, University of, Tuscaloosa, ....
Albert Memorial Museum, F.xeter, England,
Allen, Asa Witter, Salem, Ohio, ....
Allen, Edward G., London, 42 numbers of periodicals,
Allen, Willard S.,
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester,
American Baptist Missionary Union,
American Bible Society, New York City,
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions .
American Colonization Society, Washington. D. C,
American Gcogra])liical Society, JVew York Citi/,
American Home Missionary Society, New York City,
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.,
American Social Science Association, 36 numbers of peri
odicals, .....
American Unitarian Association,
Amory, Thomas C, .
Andover Theological Seminary,
Anonymous, 23 numbers of periodicals.
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Anthon, Charles E., Kew York City,
Appleton, Daniel,
Appleton, Natlian, ...
Appleton, W. S.,
Armstrong and Co., 1 lithograph,
Attvvood, Gilbert and Co., .
Atwell, Richard, I., .
Austin, S. H., New York City, .
Axon, William E. A., Manchester, England
Baker, Joseph, ....
Baldwin, Charles C, Cleveland, Ohio,
Balfour, David M., Charlestown,
Ballou, Maturin M. , .
Baltimore, Md., Mercantile Library,
Barnard, James M., .
Barr, Johij C, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Bartol, George M. Rev., Lancaster, Mass
Bassett, Rev. E. B., Warwick, Mass.,
Batchelder, Rev. C. E., Bethel, Vt., .
Bell, James B.,
Bennett, Joseph E., Manchester, iV. II.
Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsjield, Mass.,
Berlin, Prussia, City of, .
Bigelow, Jacob, M. D.,
Bigelow, Hon. John P., The Estate of, 1 broadside
Birmingham, England, Free Libraries Committee,
Bixby, George Holmes, 31. D., .
Bixby, H. C, .
Blood, Mary W., 64 newspapers,
Bogart, W. H.,
Bolles, W. v., 31. D., .
Bossange, Gustave, Paris, France,
Boston, City of, ...
Athenaeum,
Board of Trade, 10 broadsides
College,
■ Gas Light Company,
Home for Aged Men,
Home for Little Wanderers
■ Industrial Aid Society, .
■ Land Company,
. North St. Union Mission,
• Overseers of the Poor, .
. Penitent Females' Refuge,
Port and Seamen's Aid Society,
■ Provident Association, .
• • Young Men's Christian Union,
. Young Women's Christian Association,
Boston and Albany Railroad Company,
Both, Carl, M. D., .
Bowditcli, Henry L, 3L D.,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.,
Bowen, James A., .
Bradford, George P.,
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Bradford, T. G., 26 newspapers, 13 broadsides,
Bradlee, Eev. Caleb D., .
Brainard, E., 2 photographs,
Brewer, Gardner.
Brewer, Thomas M., 31. D.
Bridgeman Alfred, and Son, New York City,
Brigham, Charles B., 31. D.,
Brigham, Rev. Charles H., Ann Arbor, Mich.,
Brighton, Town Clerk,
British Museum, London, .
Brockliaus, F. A., Leipzig, Germany,
Brookline, Town of, .
Public Library,
Brooklyn, JY. Y., Art Association,
Mercantile Library Association,
Park Commissioners,
Brown, Buckminster, 3L D.,
Brown, Francis H., 3L Z>.,
Brunn, Chr. V., Copenhagen, .
Bufi'alo, N. Y, Catholic Institute,
University of.
Bufford, Rev. Marcellus, Portsmouth, N. H.,
Burroughs, Rev. Henry, ...
Butler, Hon. Benj. F., Lowell, .
Butler Hospital for the insane. Providence
California Pharmaceutical Society, San Fr
State Library, Sacramento, .
Canada, Co iiniissioner of Patents,
Department of Agriculture, .
Department of Public Works,
Geological Survey,
Capen, Barnard,
Capen, F. L.,
Carlton and Lanahan, New York City,
Caswell, Edward T., Providence, R. I.,
Chamberlin, David, ....
Chambers, George E., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Champney, J. W., ....
Chandler, Hon. Z., Washington, D. C,
Chapman, E. D.,
Charlestown, City of, ...
Public Library,
Library A
Chelsea, City of,
Christern, F. "W., New York City, ,
Ciiristian Register Association, .
Christian Visitor, The, Publisher,
Chute, J. M., Chelsea, 24 broadsides,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Young Men's Mercantile
ation, .....
Claghorn, James L., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Clapp, David, and son, 1,949 numbers of periodicals,
Clapp, Otis,
Clarke, Rev. James F., 218 numbers of periodicals,
Clarke, Robert, and Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,
Cleveland, Rev. N., Westport, Conn., 12 numbers of peri-
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Colman's Rural World, The, Publisher, St. Louis,
Columbia College, New York City, .
Commonwealth, The, Publisher,
Concord, iV. II., City Clerk,
Conkling, Clinton L., Springfield, 111.,
Connecticut Board of Education,
Coolidge, Algernon, M. D., 50 numbers of periodicals
Corbin, P., and H., New York City.,
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.,
Creery, William R., Baltimore, M. D.,
Cronin, David E., Binghampton, JV. Y., .
Cross, .Tames M., Providence, R. I.,
Cullis, Charles, 31. D., .
Curaings, Bradley N., 45 numbers of periodical;
Cupples, Joseph G.,
Curtis, P. G
Cutter, Charles A.,
Dalton, Henry R., .
Dana, E. E., 1 number of a periodical,
Dana, Hon. Richard H., Jr., .
Deane, Charles, .....
Deblois, Stephen G.,
Deborah, Die, Publisher, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Dellinger, Fanny, 1 newspaper,
Dennet, W. H., ...
Derby, George, M. D.,
Detroit, Mich., Board of Education,
Deutscher Medicinischer Verein, 178 numbers
icals, .
Dexter, Franklin B., New Haven, Conn., .
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.,
Dixon, Thomas, Sunderland, .
Douglass, D. De Forrest, Springfield,
Dow, J. E., Peoria, III., ....
Drake, Francis S., .
Drew, M.,
Drummond, Josiah H., Portland, Me.,
Dubois, Patterson, Philadelpihia, Pa.,
Duren, Dea. Elnathan F., Bangor, Me.,
Durrie, Daniel S., Madison, Wis., .
Dwelshanvers, Celestine, . . . .
Dwight, Edmund,
Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Edes, Rev. Richard S., Bolton,
Eissfeldt, Ferdinand, ....
Eliot, John Fleet,
Emerson, Hon. George B., 1 photograph, 3 m;
bers of pci-iodicals, 2 broadsides,
Essex Institute, Salem,
Evans, Rev. F. W., . . .
Everett, Horace, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Fall River, Public Library,
School Committee,
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Ferris, B. G., Ithaca, N. F, .
Fitchburg Railroad Company, .
Fliigel, Dr. Felix, Leipzig, Germany,
Foley, William J., .
Foot, Samuel A., Geneva, If. Y.,
Foote, Rev. Henry W.,
Ford, William E., .
Forssman, O. W. A., Cape Town,
Foster, William H. , . . .
Fowler, M. F.,
Franks, Augustus W., Executor of tlie Estate of F. Slade
London, .......
Freeman, William F., and Co.,
French, Hon. Henry F., .
Gaffield, Thomas,
Gardner, William S.,
Garrison, W. P., Heiv York City,
General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church
through W. S. Perry, ....
George, W. S., and Co., Lansing, Mich.,
Georgia, University of, Athens,
Globe Publishing Company, ....
Goel, 3Irs. G. B., 7 numbers of periodicals,
Gorham Manufacturing Company, New York City,
Gould, Prof. B. A., Cordoba, Argentine Republic,
Graham, William, Detroit, Jlich.,
Grahame, T., 165 newspapers, .
Gray, Hon. William,
Green, Samuel A., iM. D.,
Greene, Rev. J. S. Copley, Brookline,
Greenough, William W., .
Guild, Chester, ....
Guild, Curtis, and Co.,
Guild, Reuben A., Providence, R. I.,
Gunn, R. A., M. D., Neiu York City,
Hale, Hon. Charles, ....
Hale, Rev. Charles R., Auburn, N. Y,
Harding, William P.,
Harrison, W., and Son, London,
Hart, Charles H., Pennsylvania, Pa.,
Harvard College, Cambridge,
Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Peabody Museum,
Medical College,
Haskins, Rev. David G., Cambridge,
Haskins, Rev. George Foxcroft,
Hayes, John L., 1 newspaper,
Haynes, Prof. Henry W., Burlington, Vermont,
Hazard, Willis P., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Heiuzen, Karl, .....
Hill, William N.,
Hillard, Hon. George S., .
Hingham. Agricultural and Horticultural
School Committee,
Society,
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Hoadlcy, Charles J., Hariford, Conn.,
Hoar, lion. E. R., Concord,
Holton Librarj', Brighton,
Homans, I. Smith, New Yoi-Tc City, .
Hooper, H071. Samuel,
Howard, Cliarles P., North Reading,
Howe, Samuel G., M. D., .
Howe, William, ....
Hoyt, Col. A. H.,
Hubbard, Luther P., Greenwich, Conyi..
Humphreys, Brig. Gen. A. A., Washingto
Hunterian Club, Glasgow, Scotland, .
Hurd and Houghton, New Yorh City,
Index Association, Toledo, Ohio,
Indiana Board of Agriciilture, Indianapolis,
Indiana Institute for the Blind, Indianapolis,
Institution of Civil Engineers, London,
Iowa State Historical Society, Davenport,
Israelite, The, Publisher, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Jackson, Charles, 245 numbers of periodicals, 2 broad
Jackson, Mrs. Charles, .....
Jackson, Charles F., .
Jarvis, Edward, 31. D., .
Jay, Hon. John, United States Minister at Vienna,
Jeflrics, B. Joy, M. D.,
Jeffries, John, Jr., 30 numbers of periodicals, .
Jenkins, Josepli H., 1 broadside,
Jennison, Rev. Joseph F., Chaplain of the 203d Pe
vania Regiment, ......
Johnson, Rev. George D., NewhurypoH, .
Jones, Jessie H., East Abington,
Jordan, 0. J., .
Joy, Prof. Charles A., New Yorh City, .
Kaiserliche Konigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vi
Keep, N. C, M. D., 43 numbers of periodicals,
Kellaway, Elder W., .....
Kenyon College, Gamhier, Ohio,
Kingman, K. P.,
Koenigiiche bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Munich, ......
Lancaster. Library Committee,
Landreth, David, and Son, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Langworthy, Rev. LP.,.
Laurie, Rev. Thomas, Providence, R. I., .
Lawrence, Abbott, 6 numbers of periodicals,
Lawrence, William Beach,
Lawrence. Free Public Librar3%
Lawson, L. M., M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio,
Leeds, England, Public Library,
Leicester. Public Library,
■ School Commitee, ....
Lemay, L. Pamphile, Quebec,
Lenox, James, New York City,
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Leonard, Rev. George, East Marshfield, .
Lewis, Winslow, M. D., 4 numbers of periodicals,
engraved portraits,
Lewiston, 3Ie.. City Clerk,
Liberal Christian, The, Publisher, Kew York City,
Library of the General Staff, Cairo, Egypt,
Licking County Pioneer Association, Newark,
Ligue de I'Enseignement, Paris,
Lincoln, Henry W., .....
Lippincott and Co., Philadelphia, Pa.,
List and Franck, Leipzig, Germany,
Liverpool, England, Free Public Library,
Livingston, G. F., Manchester, N, H.,
Lodge of St. Andrew, ....
Loring, James Spear, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Loring, John G., 11 engraved portraits, 1 plaster bust,
Loubat, J. F., New York City, .
Low, Peter, ......
Lowell. City Clerk,
City Library, .....
Mc Cleary, Samuel F., City Clerk, ,
Mc Demiott, Thomas M.
Mac Donald, »S'irJohn A., Ottawa, .
McMichael, Morton, Philadelphia, Pa., .
Magee, Henry F., 7 numbers of periodicals,
Maine. Secretary of State,
State Library, ....
Manchester, England, Public Free Libraries,
Mann, B. Pickman, Cambridge,
Marble, Albert P., Worcester, .
Martin, Charles, M. D., Navy Yard, Charlesto
Martin, Hon. Silas N., Wilmington, N. C,
Massachusetts, State of, .
Agricultural College, Amherst,
Board of Health, . . . ,
Bureau of Statistics of Labor,
Charitable Mechanics Association,
Eclectic Medical Society,
• General Hosjiital, .
Horticultural Society, .
Institute of Technology,
Medical Society, 20 numbers of periodicals,
Railroad Commissioner,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
State Library,
State Lunatic Hospital, .
Temperance Alliance, .
May, Rev. Samuel, Leicester, . . .
Mendels, Jacob, .....
Merchants' and Manufacturers' Bulletin, Publi
cinnati, Ohio, .....
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
Michigan State Library, Lansing, 1 newspaper,
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Miller, Charles A., New York City, 3, GOO Union and seces-
sion envelopes, ......
Minnesota. Historical Society, St. Foul, .
Superintendent of Public Instruction, .
Moore, J. F.,
Mori, JIo)i. Arinori, Japanese Ambassador,
Mosely, Edward S., Ncu-hiirypoyi, . .
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South HacUey,
Munsell, Joel, Albany, N. Y., ....
Nation, The, Publisher, New York City, 113 numb
periodicals, 550 newspapers.
National Association of Wool Manuficturers, .
National Deaf-Mute College, Washington, D. C,
Nauniann, Dr. Robert, Leipzig, Germany,
Nelson, Horatio, ......
New Bedford, City of,
Free Puhlic Library, ....
Newcomb, John B., Elgin, 111.,
New En^'land Cotton Manufacturers" Association,
New England Freedmen's Aid Society, 18 numbers o
odicals, .......
New England Historic Genealogical Society,
NeM' England Society, Orange, N. J.,
New Hampshire. Asylum for the Insane, Concord,
Secretary of State, ....
Newton. Free Library, .....
Theological Institution,
New York, City, Apprentices' Library,
Astor Library, .....
Board of Commissions of Public Charitie
Correction, ......
Board of Health, .....
' City Mission and Tract Society, .
Commissioners of Public Parks,
Genealogical and Biographical Society,
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesme
Life Insurance Company,
Medico-Legal Society, ....
Mercantile Library Association,
Young Men's Christian Association,
New York, State, Board of Commissioners of Public
ities, ........
Chamber of Commerce,
Department of Public Instruction,
Engineer and Sui'veyor,
— ■ Ivibrary, ......
Lunatic Asvlum, .....
Nichols, Prof. W. R.,
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
Ohio. Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,
State Library, . . .
Omaha, Nebraska, Library Association, .
Onderdouk, Henry, Jr., Jamaica, Long Island,
Ontario. Library of Parliament, Toronto,
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Paine, Prof. J. K., Camhridge,
Paine, Prof. Martyn, New York City,
Palfrey, Hon. John G., Cambridge, .
Palmer, Julius A., 30 newspapers,
Parker, J. H., London, .....
Parrish, Clemnions, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Parvin, T. S., Iowa City,
Peabody Academy of Science, Salem,
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, 3Id., .
Peabody Institute, Peahody, ....
Peck, George W., Cincinnati, Ohio,
Peirce, Gen. E. W., Freetown, ....
Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities,
Institution for the Instruction of the Blind,
and
Perkins, Charles C, .
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the
Blind,
Perry, Hon. Eli, Albany, N. Y.,
Perry, John B., Carnbridge, ....
Perry, T. S.,
Philadelphia, Pa., Apprentices' Library Company
City Institute, . . • .
College of Pharmacy, ....
Fairmount Park Art Association, .
Library Company,
Mercantile Library Company,
Philbrick, John D., Superintendent of Schools,
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. //., .
Pittsburgh, Pa., Young Men's Mercantile Library
Mechanics' Institute, .....
Poore, Hon. Ben Perley, Washington, D. C, .
Por^e, Alice M.,
Potter, Thomas Bayley, London,
Powers, Thomas H., Philadelphia, Pa.. .
Prairie Farmer, The, Publisher, Chicago, 111., .
Pratt, John M. AV., Taunton, 59 numbers of periodicals
84:-t newspapers, ......
Preble, Capt. George H., U. S. N., Charlestown,
Providence, R. I., City of, ....
Athenfeum, ......
Woman's Christian Association,
Putnam Library, Dayton, Ohio,
Quincy, Eliza Susan, .....
Quincj% Hon. Josiah, 24 numbers of periodicals, fi2 broad
sides, ........
Raymond, Mrs., ......
Rayner, John J., Lexington, 464 newspapers, .
Read, William, M. D.,
Reading. Trustees of Public Library,
Reiche, Charles, ......
Rhode Island. Board of State Charities and Corrections
Medical Society, Providence,
Rice, Roswell, Shushan, iV. Y., 12 broadsides, .
Rich, Gilbert, W.,
Richardson, Hon. William A., Washington,, D. C,
Roberts, John P., Alfred, Me., ....
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Rochdale, England, Free Public Library
Rochester, N. Y., University of,
Rolfe, William J., Cambridge, .
Ross, Daniel,
Ross James, jMadison, Wis.,
Royal Astronomical Society, London,
Royal Geographical Society, London,
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh,
Runnels, Rev. M. T., Sanbornton, N. II.,
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.,
St. Louis, Mo., Board of Public Schools,
Mercantile Library Association,
■ Public School Library, .
Salem, City Clerk, ....
Salem, Ohio, Union School,
Salford, England, Museum and Library,
Sandford, Rev. Enoch, Raynham,
San Francisco, Cal., Superintendent of Common Schools
Sanger, Hon. George P., Cambridge, 5 newspapers, 10
broadsides, .....
Saturday Express, The, Publisher,
Savage, E. H.', Chief of Police, .
Saville, Mrs. Mary,' The Estate of, .
Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester,
Seaman, Ezra C, . . . .
Searle, F. A, 605 playbills,
Seeley, J., Great Barrington, .
Shaw, Benj. ^., M. D., .
Shaw, Daniel, Albany, N. Y., .
Shellabarger, Iloii. Samuel, Springfield, Ohio
Shepard, Charles A. B., .
Sibley, John L., Cambridge,
Smith, Charles C, . . . .
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C,
Snider, D. J., St. Louis, Mo., .
Snow, Edwin M., M. D., Providence, R
Socifite Franklin, Paris, .
Sons of Temperance. Grand Division of Massachusetts,
Solheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, London,
Southbridge. Library Committee,
Soiith Carolina, University of, Columbia,
Spooner, Lysander, ....
Springfield. City Library Association,
Staehli, Francis R., M. I)., . .
Start, Rev. AV. A., North Cambridge,
Steele, James G., San Francisco, Cal.,
Steiger, E., New York City,
Stevens, Henry, London, .
Stevens, Simon, New York. City,
Stimpson, Charles M., 2 broadsides, .
Stockholm, City of, .
Stoddard. Charles, ....
Stone, Gen. C. P., Alexandria, Egypt,
Stone, Hon, Jonathan, Charlestown, .
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Sumner, Hon. Charles, 2 newspapers, 5 broadsides, . . 62 45
Sunday Times, The, Publisher, 2
Sykes, Joseph, ......... 1 1
Taunton. Public Library, • 1
Taylor, H. P., 1 1
Teele, A. K., Milton 1
Temjiorar}' Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners,
Dedham, ......... 1
Tenney, Eev. E. P., . 1 3
Thayer, Caroline C, 3
Thrailkill, John W., M. D., St. Louis, Mo., . . . 1
Thurman, Hon. A. G., Charlottesville, Va., ... 1
Tiele, P. A., Leyden, ....
Titus, Charles H., 2 6
Tobey, Hon. Edward S., 1
Toner, J. M., M. D., 1
Towne, Rev. Edward C., New Haven, Conn., 5 newspapers,
Trumbull, Hon. J. H., Hartford, Conn., .... 1
Tucker, W. W.,
Tufts College, College Hill, 5
Turf, Field and Farm, The, Publisher, New York City, . 2
Turner, Mrs. Abby D., 9
Turner, Alfred T., i
Union League, Philadelphia, Pa., 1
United States. Board of Indian Commissioners, . . 1
Bureau of Education, ...... 2
Bureau of Navigation, 8
Census Office, ....... 2
Department of Agriculture, .....
Department of the Interior, 1 map, ... 87
Department of State, ...... 17
Department of the Post Office, .... 8
Department of the Treasury, 3 broadsides, . . 4 1
Department of "War, ...... 2
— Library of Congress, " . 1 1
Naval Observatory, ...... 3
Office of the Chief Engineers, .... 2
Patent Office, 56 1
Quartermaster General's Office, .... 1 I
Surgeon General's Office, 2 broadsides, . . 11
United States Military Post Library Association, New
York City,
United States National Prison Association, Washington,
D. C, ]
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., . ' .
Vermont, State of, ....... . 2
Asylum for the Insane, Brattlehord' , ... 1
State Library, 5 1
Vermont Kecord and Farmer, The, Publisher, Brattle-
horo\ .......... 1
Veterans' National Committee, N'ew York City, . . 1
Vibbert, Rev. G. II., 2 101
Vinton, Frederic, Washington, D. C, . . . . 1
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., .- . . . 1
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Wadman, Theopli. G. ,
Wallace, Capt. W., U. S. Marine Corps, 3 newspapers,
1 medal,
Waltham. Public Library, ......
"Ware, Rev. Jobn F. W., .......
Ware, William, ........
Warner, Hermann J., Cambridge, .....
Warner, IIoi. Oliver,
Warren, Ho?i. G. Washington, ......
Warren, J. Collins, M. £>.,
Washington, Z>. C, Board of Trustees of Public Schools,
Watertown, Free Public Library, .....
Watson, Winslow, M., Washington, D. C,
Webster, Warren, M. D., U. S. A., Fort Independence, .
Weld, Theodore D., Hyde Park,
Wells, S. E., New York City,
Wenzel, Iwan,
Wesleyan University, Ifiddletown, Conn.,
Western Farmer, The, Publisher, Madison, Wis., .
Western Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.,
Westford, Town of,
Wheeler, William A., 11 numbers of periodicals, 1 map.
White, James C, M. D., 15 numbers of pferiodicals, 1
broadside, .........
White, 3Irs. Warren, 361 numbers of periodicals, 475 news-
jiapers, .........
Whiteley, John, Shirley Village, .....
Whiting, Uon. William, .
Whitney, Rev. F. A., Allston, 49 numbers of periodicals,
AVhitney, James L., 3 numbers of periodicals, .
Whitney, Prof. Josiah D., Cambridge, ....
Whitney, Prof. AV. D., New Haven, Conn.,
Wilder, Pro/. Burt G., /if/jaca, iV.r., . . . .
Wilder, Hon. Marshall P.,
Wilkins, E. T., M. D., Sacramento, Cal., ....
Willard, Z. A.,
Wilcox, E. S., Peoria, 111.,
William and Mary, College of, Williamsburg, Va., .
Williams, J. Otis,
Wilson, Hon. Henry, Vice-President of the United States,
Wilson, Henry W., 2 broadsides, . . . .
Wilson, J. Ormond, Washington, JD. C, .
Winchester, C. T., Middleiown, Conn., . .
Wing, Alice M., 5 numbers of periodicals,
Winship, J. P. C, Brighton
Winsor, Justin,
Winsor, Nathaniel,
Winthrop, Ho7i. Robert C, Brookline, 1 portrait,
Wisconsin. Academy of Arts and Sciences, Madison,
Historical Society, 1 broadside, ....
Institution for the Blind, Janesville,
State Agriculture Society, Madison,
Withington, Joseph C,
Woburn, Town Clerk
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Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, PhiladeJj^liia,
Wood, Minard, ......... 1
Woods, Joseph E., ....... . 1
Worcester. City Clerk, ....... 1
Free Public Library, ......
Wright, Col. Albert J., 14
Wright and Potter, 1
Wynian, Morrill, M. D., Cambridge, .... 1
Yale College. New Haven, Conn., .....
Linonian and Brothers' Library, ....
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examination), e New restrictions put upon costly books. / Nine months, f? Central library only, h If the
issues at East Boston be excluded, this footing would be 296,.315; and if hall issues be excluded, there will be
record of 293,710 volumes used at home, i Open seventy-eight days, m See report for 186S. n Includes
books borrowed and returned the same daj', on white slips, as shown in Appendix XIII. o 1'he E. B. Branch
was open only 307 days, owing to repairs on furnace, p Includes the largest of each department on any day,
without regard to its being the same day, as in previous entries under this bead.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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APPENDIX XIII.
LOWER HALL.
Books returned for each month. (Books issued appear in Appendix XTI.)
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CITY DOCUMENT.
No. 88.
APPENDIX XIY.
REGISTRATION.
IV.
VI.
Note. The first registration, 18.54-8,
had 17,066 names ; the second, 1859-67,
had 52,829 names.
Applications. <J
C Central Library
E. B. Branch . .
S. B. Branch . .
ITotal
Applications
sent to I'olice,
f Central Library
E. B. Branch .
^Ior verincauou
when needed.)
I. Total
( Central Lib' ary ■
Cards Refused,
(mostly for non-^
residency
under age. )
Cards not called
for during the
year.
E. B. Branch
S. B. Branch
Total
Central Library .
E. B. Branch . .
S. B. Branch . .
Total
Applications
Cancelled. (Six
months on file,
and one month
longer after no-
tice.)
Cards in use (de-
ductingClasses
III and V).
f Central Library .
E. B. Branch
S. B. Branch
Total ....
' Central Library .
E. B. Branch . .
S. B. Branch . ,
Total
Third Registration.
12,057
12,057
2,810
6,490
3,462
3,462
6,577
1,904
1,904
7.096
2,320
9,416
3,040
1,012
4,052
321
393
117
1,215
1,215
30,150
2,240
32,390
993
232
7,913
2,876
474
267
28
439
151
590
264
82
36,307
3,123
39,430
6,670
826
3,094
10,590
3,419
266
645
4,330
288
10
409
93
179
681
196
45
82
323
42493
3,894
3,180
49,567
45,578
4,139
3,326
53,043
17,511
1,752
645
19,908
1,410
118
64
1,592
3,086
361
179
3,626
1,675
127
82
1,884
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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APPENDIX XIV. — Continued.
MEMORANDA.
Memoranda.
Largest weekly number of applicants .
Month of this last
Smallest weekly number of applicants .
Month of this last
Weekly average
Largest dally number
Date of same
Smallest daily number
Date of same
Dorchester applicants*
Cards rejjorted lost
Of these replaced
Cards detained for fines
Cancellation warnings
Of these cards called for
1872.
202
Oct.
56
May
128
39
Feb. 28.
2
Sept. 18.
295
2,493
1,636
273
327
63
18T3.
Central
Library.
204
Nov.
58
June
128
46
Sept. 28.
1
May 30.
285
2,483
1,701
350
241
45
16
14
Feb. 1.
402
209
382
51
S. B.
197
May
17
Dee.
60
53
May 11.
2
May 30.
711
512
192
112
* The number of Dorchester applicants reported in 1870 was 565; in 1871, 293, making
with the above, to date, 1,438.
62
CITY DOCUMENT. No. 88.
appe:n^dix xy.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED. USE OF BRITISH PATENTS, AND TOSTI
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in this table. For instance, of the 1,120 — (183 + 423) = 514 not received in 1868 of the total recommended
that year, a large part has since been received.
* The partial disuse of the Bates Ha'l, on account of the alterations going on, affected this number.
P«<«/r;.s.— The American and French Patents have been placed in an alcove contiguous to the room
of the British Patents, and the whole collection put in charge of a curator. No record is made of the use
of either the American or French Patents.
Svgravinas. — These are shown by the Curator, Mondays and Saturdays; and the statistics refer
only to the bound volumes, not to those framed and on the walls.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
63
APPENDIX Xyi.
BATES HALL READING,
Percentage
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Classifications.
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raphy, Travel and Polite Literature .
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2
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2
4
3
3
3
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2
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phy, Travel and Polite Literature . .
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3
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2
2
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4
5
5
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3
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3
3
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2
2
2
2
3
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2
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9
4
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12
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7
6
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8
4
4
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8
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9
4
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4
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4
6
8
6
9
8
8
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14
9
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Medicine
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Miscellaneous Pamphlets, bound . . .
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Note. — In computing this percentage, the use of books in the Bowditch, Parker and
Prince Libraries, — which are kept apart from the general classifications of the Library, —
is reckoned as nearly as possible and included in the usual divisions, as is indicated in the
table. See Explanations to Appendix IX.
The want of a Catalogue to the Spanish books of the Ticknor Library has continued to '
prevent any use of those book.s which would enter into the statistics.
During a considerable part of the year the last nine classes were partially inaccessible on
account of the alterations in the Hall, which has caused the unusual diminution of the per-
centage of use of those classes.
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Fiction and Juveniles
Patents
Foreign languages
Total
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1,807
3,054
349
1,909
3,373
3,162
4,140
76,222
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96,797
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LIBRARY SERVICE.
JUSTIN WINSOE, Superintendent.
William A. Wheelek, Assistant Superintendent.
James L. Whitney, Principal Assistant.
Miss A. A. Nichols, Accountant.
John Barry, Superintendent's Runner.
CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.
William A. Wheeler, Chief.
James L. Whitney, Principal Assistant; Max Auerbach, Assistant and
Curator of Patent Room ; J. Otis Williams, Curator of Pamphlets and En-
gravings ; William H. Foster, Proof-Reader.
Mrs. R. M. Eastman, Extra Work ; Miss M. E. Joslyn, Assistant ; Miss
A. B. Loud, Pamphlets; Miss A. P. Call, Cataloguer for Branches; Miss
Margaret W. McGrath, Curator of Public Card Catalogue.
Miss Alice M. PorSe, Lower Hall Assistant.
ORDERING AND RECEIVING DEPARTMENT..
Miss Harriet N. Pike, Chief Clerk.
Miss Mary A. McGrath, Assistant; Miss Elizabeth J. Stevenson, ^iVews-
papers and Duplicates ;^E.\\QVi Stevenson, Attendant.
SHELF DEPARTMENT.
Mrs. L. T. Barton, Custodian.
Appleton P. C. Griffin, Assistant Custodian; Annie M. Kennedy, Assistant.
BATES HALL DEPARTMENT.
Joseph Syk.es, Keeper.
Charles A. Wilson, Assistant Keeper ; Miss^L. S. Norton, Miss E. T. Hill,
Assistants.
Charles H. Ginness, John Bresnahan, Charles M. Stimpson, Runners.
LOWER HALL DEPARTMENT.
Edward Capen, Keeper.
Miss Elizabeth S. Haley, Delivery Clerk ; Miss Lydia F. Knowles, Receiv-
ing Clerk ; Miss Lucy A. W- Ginness, Keeper's Clerk ; Miss Elizabeth Ross,
Misses Eliza J. Mack, Sarah A. Mack, Ellen E. Bresnahan, Assistants.
Eliza F. Cotter {monitor), Ellen F'. McCarthy, Ella Sturiny,'Henrietta E.
Mack {extra), Florence E. Ginness {extra). Runners.
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Elbridge Bradshaw, Registration Clerk.
Miss Matilda J. Eoss, Assistant Registration Clerk.
Miss Caroline E. Poree, Reading Room Attendant.
Evening Service. J. M. W. Pratt, Registration Clerk; P. G. Pratt, jr.,
Delivery Clerk; Miss Catharine McGrath, Receiving Clerk; Miss Amelia
McGrath, Assistant; W. F. Eobinson, Reading Room Attendant; Charles
H. and Otis K. Moses, Runners.
Sunday Service. W. P. Eobinson, Reading Room Attendant.
JANITOEIAL DEPARTMENT.
William E. Pord, Janitor.
Thomas Collins, Assistant.
BINDING DEPARTMENT.
Prank P. Hathaway, Foreman.
Andrew M. Blake, Mrs. Martha Wheeler, Assistants.
Note. — The binderies of Theodore Jackson, Jerome Seidensticker and
G. H. Plattich are also employed.
EAST BOSTON BEANCH.
Miss Sarah C. Godbold, Librarian.
Miss Mary E. Pray, Miss A. M. Wing, Assistants.
Mary E. Cathcart, Runner.
G. H. Hosea, Janitor.
Misses Mary Lennon, Martha Hill, Emma Pond, G. Chilcott, and Kate
Greene, Substitutes and extra Assistants.
Mrs. M. L. George, Sunday Service.
SOUTH BOSTON BEANCH.
Mrs. Anna C. D. Keen, Librarian.
Miss Clara P. Mulloy, Miss L. Anna Baldwin, Assistants.
H. E. McCarthy, Runner. .
Joseph Baker, Janitor.
Misses E. A. Eaton {also Sunday Service), A. Bragdon, E. Watson, H.
Twing, and M. Webster, Substitutes and extra Assistants.
ROXBUEY BEANCH.
I Miss H. C. Price, Librarian.
Mrs. Julia A. Nye, Miss Marietta Goldsmith, Assistants.
Margaret E. Blood, Runner.
Charles E. Curtis, Janitor.
Substitutes and extra assistants not yet engaged.
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AGENCY DEPARTMENT.
Messrs. Lee & Shepard, Boston.
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., and Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle,
Boston and London.
Mr. F. W. Christern, and M. Charles Reinwald, New York and Paris.
Dr. Felix Flugel, Leipsic.
Chev. Eugenio Alberi, Florence.
SUMMARY.
Regulars. Extras.
Superintendent , 1
Accountant and Superintendent's Runner .... 2
Catalogue Department 10 1
Ordering and Receiving Department ..... 4
Shelf Department 3
B. H. Circulating Department 7
L. H. Circulating Department, Day Service ... 14 2
L. H. Circulating Department, Evening and Sunday Service 7
Janitorial Department ........ 2
Binding Department 3
East Boston Branch 5 6
South Boston Branch 5 5
Roxbury Branch . 5
Totals 61 21
21
Grand Total 82
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APPENDIX XXIY.
REPORT ON THE EXAMINATION OF THE LIBRARY.
To the Superintende7it : —
Sir, — The report which I now present hicliides the re-
sults of the examination of the Central Library, since the
repairs have been completed, and also the second report upon
the East Boston Branch, and the first report upon the South
Boston Branch.
Owing to the alterations in progress in the Bates Hall last
year, it was impossible to conduct a minute examination of that
portion of the Library, and the usual report in detail was
omitted. The present report, therefore, covers the period
that has elapsed since April 30, 1871. Within this period, the
books on each side of the Hall have been twice moved, and
numerous misplacements resulting therefrom have rendered
the present examination more than usually perplexing.
In the Bates Hall there were missing from the shelves
at the time of examination .... 2,786 vols.
Of these there were found, —
Loaned ....... 758
At the Binder's ...... 546
Otherwise accounted for .... 1,452
2,756 "
Not at present accounted for, —
Books ....... 29
Maps 1
30 "
It is gratifying to be able to state that not a single volume
is missing from either of the Special Libraries, and that the
western alcoves, which were the first completed, and liave been
twice read by the shelf-catalogues, show but eight missing
volumes. This is not in excess of former results. The
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remainder of the missing volumes belong in the eastern al-
coves, more recently completed ; and, as there is no record
to show that they have been loaned, it is probable that some
of them will be brought to light at another reading of the
shelf-catalogues.
One volume reported missing in 1869 and one in 1870
have appeared in their places during the past year.
In the Lower Hall there were missing from the shelves
at the time of examination ..... 5,075 vols.
Loaned ....... 4,159
At the Binder's 216
Otherwise accounted for .... 674
5,048 "
Not at present accounted for, —
Fiction ....
Duplicates of Fiction .
Miscellaneous . . . •
6
11
9
26
Only two of these volumes have been found loaned dur-
ing the year ; while nine are recent accessions. Most of them
may be accounted for as mis-numbered, an accident which is
liable to occur.
None of the volumes have appeared which were reported
missing at the last exauiination ; but four have been found
which were missing in 1867, and one which was missing in
1870. All of these volumes were mis-numbered.
The number of books missing from each alcove, is as
follows : —
1st alcove
1 vol.
10 th alcove .
1 vol
4th " .
3 "
11th "
2 "
5th '^ .
1 "
13th "
1 "
6th " .
1 "
17th "
1 "
7th " .
3 "
20th "
1 "
8th " . . .
1 "
Dup's of 4th alcove
6 "
■ Dup's of 4th alcove
6 "
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At the East Boston Branch there were missinor from the
shelves at the time of examination
Loaned
At the Binclei-'s . . . . ,
Otherwise accounted for ...
1,557 vols
1,346
128
77
1,551 "
Not at present accomited for, —
Fiction
Juveniles
2
2
4 "
At the South Boston Branch there were missing from the
shelves at the time of examination . . 2,061 vols.
Loaned ....... 1,810
At the Binder's 194
Otherwise accounted for ... 57
2,061 " ,
I have also to report that tliere are no books of reference
at present missing from the Bates Hall desk, and that Burke's
Dictionary of English peerage, which was reported missing
last year, has since been found at the Binder's.
From the desk in the Periodical Reading Room there are
missing, —
Arnault's Biographic des Contemporains, vol. 15.
Haydn's Dictionarj' of dates.
Martin's Hand-book of biography.
Webster's Counting-house dictionary.
Wheeler's Noted names of fiction.
Wood and Bache's Dispensatory.
Also, from the S. B. Branch Reading Room, a Catalogue
of the E. B. Branch was missing Dec. 24, 1872.
Respectfully submitted.
L. T. BARTON,
Custodian of the Shelves.
Public Library, May 14, 1873.
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APPENDIX XXV.
WORK IN THE LIBRARY BINDERY.
Character of Work.
Bates Hall books bound and finished .
Books of the Lower Hall and Branches
Books repaired
Catalogues wired and covered for public use in Lower
Hall and Branches
Maps dissected and mounted . . . .
Map-volumes and shelf-lists mounted
Pamphlet cases
Portfolios
Removable covers for catalogues, and paper covered
books
Maps mounted, bound and bordered
Hours of misceUaneous work . . .
18T0-1.
1871-3.
18T3-3.
2,219
2,008
1,015
744
396
430
490
437
47
28
212
165
546
64
5
8
266
263
54
41
1,842
2,297
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APPENDIX xxyi.
THE BARTON LIBRARY.
Prepared bt the President of the Trustees.
A brief account of the negotiation which ended in the pur-
chase of the Barton Library may not be without interest.
Late in the summer of 1869, Mr. F. W. Cliristern, the emi-
nent bookseller and agent of the Library in New York,
made known to Mr. Winsor, the Superintendent of the Li-
brary, the desire of Mrs. Barton to arrange for some satis-
factory disposition of the collection formed by her deceased
husband. A direct correspondence was opened with her;
and in September she visited the Library, and had interviews
with the Superintendent and Mr. Ticknor. A valuation was
made of her books, shortly after, by two well-known bibliog-
raphers. Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell and Mr. Joseph Sabin of
New York, and in December her terms were given to the
Trustees in the sum of $45,000 for a collection of books
which had cost Mr. Barton more than $60,000, and which
had increased considerably in value since they were pur-
chased. The conditions of sale were substantially those
which formed part of the final contract, viz., that the books
should be kept together as one collection, and that they
should not be loaned from the building. Notwithstanding
the liberality of these terms, the want of pecuniary means at
the disposal of the Trustees compelled them to decline the
offer, and the correspondence terminated in January, 1870.
Two years later negotiations were resumed, and the sum
of $40,000 was named as a basis, with other conditions not
previously stated. This amount also could not be obtained
trom any source accessible to the Trustees. On the 13th
April, 1872, so anxious had she become that the collection
should be safely placed^in the Bates Hall, that she reduced
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her price to $30,000, annexing the new condition that she
should retain 1,500 volumes during her lifetime.
This concession was so large that the Trustees determined
to make an effort to obtain the amount. So important did
the proposed acquisition appear, that they felt justified in ar-
rano:ino- to set aside from the interest of the Trust Funds be-
longing to the Library, in the course of two or three j^ears,
the sum of $10,000 — and that an appeal for the sum of
$20,000 should be made to such friends of education and
polite letters in our community as could appreciate the worth
of the collection, and might be disposed to contribute to the
purchase. Mr. Hillard, of the Board of Trustees, prepared a
suitable circular, which was issued on the last of May. Of
the sum desired, about $2,000 only was subscribed ; and fur-
ther action was deferred until the autumn, Mrs, Barton hav-
ing extended her refusal to Nov. 1st.
This was the condition of affairs on the return of the Pres-
ident of the Board from Europe in Septeml)er last. It was
seen that further steps must be taken if the library was to
be secured to Boston. Conferences were held with the
Mayor, and the Committee upon the Public Library of the
City Goverument, whereby the co-operation of the City was
to be arranged, and a further extension of time was obtained
to the first of January.
Just as a plan was matured, which met the approval of the
Trustees and of the committee, the disastrous fire of Novem-
ber removed all hope of immediate assistance from the City
Treasury ; and they withdrew from the negotiation, in-
forminsr Mrs. Barton that if the events of the future should
improve their condition, and the library still remained in her
possession, they should desire to reopen a correspondence.
Most unexpectedly to the Trustees, the correspondence was
reopened by Mrs. Barton in February of the present year,
when she informed them, through their Superintendent, that
other parties were moving to obtain possession of her collec-
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tion ; while at the same time she reiterated her preferences
for the Boston Public Library, and inquired whether we had
relinquished all expectation of acquiring it.
A new effort was made, which, by the unanimous consent
of all interests concerned, proved successfnl ; and on the 27th
of March, a contract was signed by both parties, in which
she agreed to sell to the Public Library of the City of Boston
her collection for the sum of $34,000, upon the following
conditions : —
1st. The collection is to be kept in a separate alcove or
alcoves or apartments of the Boston Public Library building,
and is to be known and designated as the "Barton Library,"
which name shall be placed over the alcoves or room contain-
ing said collection.
2d. None of the books shall be loaned or permitted to be
taken out of the Library, but the entire collection shall be
kept and used for reference in the Library only.
3d. A book-plate, of which the design shall be selected
by Mrs. Barton, shall bo engraved and provided by the Li-
brary, and pasted in each volume of the collection.
4th. The Library shall cause a catalogue of the collection
to be prepared so as to embody the information contained
in Mr. Barton's catalogue, and shall cause the same to be
printed and published as a separate catalogue within four
years from the date of contract.
By the fourth article of the contract, it was further agreed
that the books, al)out one hundred in number, the personal
property of Mrs. Barton before the death of her husband,
were not to be included in the sale.
The fifth article gave Mrs. Barton permission to retain
during her lifetime about 800 volumes, which upon her de-
cease were to revert to the Library.
It will be noticed that the price finally agreed upon was
larger than the one previously named. This had arisen from
the fact that private circumstances, which she made known
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to the Trustees, had rendered it necessary on her part to in-
crease the sum at which she could in justice to herself dispose
of the library.
Early in May the delivery of the books frona her house in
Z^ew York city began, which was completed before the close
of the month, by the despatch of four cases from Montgom-
ery Place, her residence at Barrytown, on the Hudson,
whither had been sent from New York, a few days previously,
five cases containing her own books, and the others to be re-
tained by her during her lifetime. The whole library was
packed in about seventy cases.
Within two days after this fulfilment of the agreement,
Mrs. Barton, early on the morning of the 22d May, sud-
denly died at Montgomery Place.
This bare narration gives no idea of the generous •spirit
with which this most estimable lady carried forward every
step of the contract. The library had been left to her by
her husband's will, without condition, to do Avith as she
pleased. But she knew that his desire had been that the la-
bor of his lifetime should not be lost by the separation of
his dearly prized books, and she determined that his wishes
should be literally carried out. In doing this, she gave to
the Barton Library everything in her possession which could
add value to the collection, — the correspondence, autographs,
and })lates, which would illustrate and complete it. She
added a mask of Shakespeare's face, taken at Mr. Barton's
expense from the monument at Stratford on Avon, and a
statuette of Richard III, the work of Rogers.
Note. — Of the sum of $34,000, the price to be paid under the contract for
the Barton Library, $15,000 was directly appropriated for the purpose, by the
City Council ; $10,000 was drawn from a sum at the disposal of the Trustees
in the City Treasury; and the balance of $9,000 is to be paid previous to the
first of January, 1874,
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