ESSEX INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT

1962-1963

OFFICERS

ALBERT GOODHUE President

STEPHEN PHILLIPS

CHARLES S. TAPLEY Vice-Presidents

ROBERT W. HILL Treasurer

CHARLES H. P. COPELAND

Secretary

COUNCIL

Term expires 1964:

W. HAMMOND BOWDEN FREDERICK J. BRADLEE AUGUSTUS P. LORING STEPHEN PHILLIPS

Term expires 1965; J. SANGER ATTWILL

ERNEST S. DODGE PAUL T. HASKELL ROLLO G. SILVER

Term expires 1966:

Term expires 1967: CHARLES H. P. COPELAND HAROLD D. HODGKINSON JOHN PICKERING DAVID P. WHEATLAND

ALBERT GOODHUE WILLIAM B. OSGOOD CHARLES S. TAPLEY MRS. BERTRAM K. LITTLE

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STANDING COMMITTEES

FINANCE COMMITTEE

PAUL T. HASKELL, Chairman ROBERT W. HILL, Treasurer AUGUSTUS P. LORING STEPHEN PHILLIPS

HAROLD G. MACOMBER JOHN PICKERING

CHESTER F. VOORHEES

LIBRARY AND PUBLICATIONS

W. HAMMOND BOWDEN, Chairman CHARLES H. P. COPELAND	BENJAMIN W. LABAREE STEPHEN PHILLIPS
ERNEST S. DODGE	ROLLO G. SILVER
RALF P. EMERSON	CHARLES S. TAPLEY

DAVID P. WHEATLAND

MUSEUM COMMITTEE

FREDERICK J. BRADLEE, Chairman	MRS. BERTRAM K. LITTLE
J. SANGER ATTWILL	WILLIAM B. OSGOOD
HAROLD D. HODGKINSON	JOHN PICKERING
HONORARY	CURATORS
Honorary Curator of Arms:	RICHARD K. SPRAGUE
Honorary Curator of Clocks :	FRANCIS B. REMON
Honorary Curator of Coins :	LEA S. LUQUER
Honorary Curator of Industrial Manuscripts :	PROF. ABBOTT P. USHER
Honorary Curator of Silver:	MARTHA GANDY FALES

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STAFF

DEAN A. FALES, Jr. Director

Managing Editor

Library & Publications

MISS HARRIET S. TAPLEY1 Librarian Emeritus

DAVID R. PROPER2

Associate Librarian

MRS. DOROTHY M. POTTER Reference Librarian

MRS. ANN BERRY3 Library Assistant

MISS MARY RITCHIE4 5 Library Assistant

*MRS. LOIS W. MARTIN Library Assistant

Maintenance

RAY K. MOORE Custodian

MRS. SARAH E. BEECHEY Housekeeper

EDWARD G. LEONARD Constable

1. Died July 3, 1962

2. Appointed July 17, 1962

3. Resigned Jan. 31, 1963

4. Appointed Jan. 8, 1963

5. Resigned June 9, 1962

6. Appointed June 5, 1962

7. Appointed July 3, 1962

8. Appointed Oct. 19, 1962

* Part time

Museum

MISS HULDAH M. SMITH Curator

MISS MARION C. THOMAS3 Museum Assistant

*MRS. MARTHA HASSELL6 Registrar

MRS. DOROTHY LALONE7 8 Museum Assistant

*MISS MARY HUNTLEY3 Museum Assistant

Administration

MRS. RUTH C. BOYD

Administrative Secretary

MISS BESSOM S. HARRIS Office Manager

MISS KATHRYN BURKE Assistant Treasurer

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

Although the events of March 31, 1913 as recorded in The Salem Evening News may at first glance seem to be totally un¬ related to the proceedings here this evening, an item of interest on that date caught my eye,

“HUMAN ROCKET” to fly across the Atlantic.

Rodman Law, the aviator who has just recovered from burns received when a giant skyrocket in which he attempt¬ ed to go up into the air three miles exploded, announces that late in June or July he will attempt to fly across the Atlantic ocean. Law is the man who made a sensational but successful parachute jump from an aeroplane at Marble¬ head some months ago.

An unrecorded event of far greater significance took place on the same day, for Miss Bessom Harris came to work at the In¬ stitute. It was an important date for all of us, as she has served for 50 consecutive years in many capacities including that of Acting Director.

Her quiet and unassuming manner is well known, but behind this rather disarming facade is an encyclopedic knowledge of the Institute and an eagerness to be of assistance. Continuity is an invaluable asset to any organization, and her undiminished en¬ thusiasm after 50 years is an inspiration to us all.

It is my great pleasure to present a gift from the Council to Miss Harris on this happy occasion. It is evidence of the high regard in which she is held by all of us. With it go our thanks for all that she has done and our best wishes for the future.

Miss Harris, I am sure, would agree that the past year has seen more activity and commotion than the preceding forty-nine. In fact as a result of her omniscience we learned that the Mu¬ seum Gallery had never been repainted until this past year. It has been a long wait indeed, as the hall was purchased in 1907. In my remarks I do not want to mention specific items of im¬ provement as they will be covered later by Mr. William Osgood, the chairman of our Development Committee. However, I could

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not resist the temptation of mentioning this unbelievable change in our Museum.

A more prosaic subject which I must bring up is the matter of membership dues. It has been apparent to members of the Council that adjustments should be made in our dues structure. The care¬ fully thought out recommendations of a special committee made up of Mr. Frederick J. Bradlee, Mr. Ernest Dodge and Mr. John Pickering were reviewed and adopted by the Council.

The most significant change has been the increase in our ac¬ tive membership dues from $5.00 to $10.00. This would seem to be an alarming bit of inflation, but the cost of printing, sending out the Quarterly, and other mailing costs is approximately $5.45 per member. We therefore had no alternative to an increase in dues and we are hopeful that the great majority of our members will continue their support. Also this increase is in line with the dues of comparable organizations and with the contribution of in¬ dividuals as Friends of the Peabody Museum.

In fairness to those who have been Active members for many years it was voted that any person who has been an active member for 25 years and has reached his or her 65th birthday, shall, upon written request when the bills for dues are mailed in June, be entitled to all the privileges of membership, including the Quarterly for $5.00.

The Council has also prescribed an additional tranquilizer in the form of a family membership for $15.00. This classification will fill a long-standing need and eliminate what has been a source of confusion in the past.

In addition, there will be Sustaining members at $25.00, Cor¬ porate at $100.00 and Life at $250.00. The provision for Cor¬ porate members is new, and we hope to obtain the support of many companies and organizations in Essex County. This has been done most successfully by other Societies.

We regret the necessity for the increases, but income from membership dues provides a substantial part of our operating funds, and it must be greater if we are to maintain and improve the quality and scope of our service to the community.

Although I do not want to trespass on the domain of the Treas¬ urer, a few general comments as to our finances may be in order.

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Operating deficits of approximately $1,000 and $6,500 were in¬ curred in the past two fiscal years. These were unavoidable be¬ cause of salary and staff increases which the Council deemed essential. One compensating factor has been an increase in the book value of our assets of $92,000 through gifts and legacies.

We all know of the great interest of Mr. James Duncan Phillips in the Institute. He was a dedicated scholar and historian and we have benefited greatly from the historical and material contribu¬ tions he made during his lifetime. With the death of Mrs. Phillips this past year, the Institute, under the terms of Mr. Phillips’ will is the beneficiary of a very generous bequest. The income is to be divided equally between our publications and general operating expenses. As a result we have been able to resume work on the index to our Historical Collections and to prepare a realistic budget for next year that should show only a very slight deficit.

I have referred briefly to the turmoil and confusion of the past year. One’s normal reaction would be that the place must be falling apart at the seams, or that there is dissension in the ranks. Such I assure you is not the case. Rather, positive and carefully planned steps are being taken which are essential to the future development of the Institute. Basically these first steps are design¬ ed to improve our housekeeping and to use more effectively the existing museum and library space. This has been dirty, tiring, and at the same time most rewarding work, and the accomplish¬ ments are truly miraculous.

The enthusiasm and dedication of our Ladies’ Committee, staff, volunteers and Council in this past year is beyond descrip¬ tion. To them belongs the credit for all that has been accomplish¬ ed. I can only offer my sincere thanks for their assistance, and express my boundless admiration for the competence and cheer¬ ful spirit of our Director, Dean Fales.

The tonnage of items that has been moved is staggering, but unfortunately, as with the game of musical chairs, someone or something is left out.

Stated as simply as possible, we do not have adequate space for our museum and library material. For example at the present time we have had to put some 50,000 books in the museum annex, and the contents of the annex are now stored in the basement of Plummer Hall.

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This is not a new problem. At a banquet in 1878 celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Gov¬ ernor John Endicott, the Reverend Edward S. Atwood described the crisis by saying

It is a matter of regret that this Society should be so ham¬ pered in its work by limitations of its surroundings - - - Give us this, which we so greatly need, and the past ac¬ complishments of the Essex Institute, creditable as they are, shall be only the hint of the larger and better work which shall be done.

That crisis was alleviated by the purchase of the Daland house in 1887, but in 1898 the problem was once again acute as the passage of time and countless acquisitions prompted the President, Mr. Robert S. Rantoul, to speak as follows: —

The people of Essex County, the people interested in Essex County, living here and elsewhere have come to regard the Institute as a place of deposit where everything typical of our heroic past, everything that can embalm the personality and keep alive the memory of actors in the scenes of long ago, may well repose in consecrated security forever.

Not only valuable books and rare historical papers, the natur¬ al accretions of a great library, have been gathered here, but relics and manuscripts and pictures and ancient records, a priceless legacy to the antiquary and the student of local annals, rich material ready to the hand of the historian, all have poured in upon us until our receptivity is overtaxed.

The Institute has passed successfully its formative stage, its period of mere accretion. What it now craves is the op¬ portunity to unfold its treasures, to utilize its wealth, to make available its vast assets.

The appeal of 1898 was met with a quicker response than that of 1878, for within a short time Plummer Hall was acquired from the Salem Athenaeum, the center hall constructed, and later in 1914 the fireproof library stacks were added.

At the annual meeting of the Institute in May 1929, President Alden P. White had this to say: —

The years, more than thirty of them, with that same in¬ exorable habit, have passed since 1898, and expansion clings to its characteristic function of expanding. This composite home of ours is full to repletion.

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We cannot thrive on our present income. We must not encroach further upon our principal. Again our accumula¬ tions, of untold value, are crowded and obscured. To provide for their proper exhibition and use, to allow for our vital expansion — we must have more space.

The response to the subsequent appeal was exceedingly gener¬ ous, for despite the stock market crash, more than $225,000 was raised.

I believe that there are significant reasons for reviewing the past in some detail. The first is that our predecessors have been keenly aware of the importance of the Institute and of their obli¬ gation to properly preserve and display its treasures. Secondly, it is apparent that for generations the Institute has been considered a suitable repository for historical items. Our outstanding acqui¬ sitions this past year are evidence of continuing trust and con¬ fidence.

As we have seen, our ever-increasing collections have required periodic demands for additional capital and space. And so, tonight, as in 1878, 1898, and 1929, we must reappraise our needs and lav out a course for the future.

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Our needs have been carefully reviewed by the Council and a long range program established. During the past year the decision was reached to proceed with the first steps. However this could not be done from the Institute s funds, and the members of the Council have given, or pledged, more than $36,000. This unani¬ mous response is the cornerstone of our new program, and we must turn now to members and friends for additional assistance. Mr. Osgood will discuss the details of the program, and I am, therefore, purposely avoiding any detailed discussion of our plans.

In the past, the Institute has filled its role in preserving our priceless material, but additional museum and library space must be provided.

In recent years there has been a tremendous growth of interest in museums and historical societies. This has been reflected by a greatly increased use of the Institute and its houses by students and visitors. If we are to fulfill our responsibilities we must de- emphasize our function as a storage warehouse and at the same time make our collections more accessible and useful both to the

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tourist and scholar. Much has been done in the past one hundred years to achieve this goal but a great deal remains to be done.

Over the years, the value of our paintings, furniture, and manuscripts has increased enormously. Whatever the valuation of our collections may have been even twenty years ago, it is safe to say that it has tripled in value today. Our physical means to preserve our holdings properly have declined proportionately, as they are basically unchanged, and must be enlarged and improved.

We are fully aware that we are faced with a great challenge. It has been met by preceding generations. The cause now is the same, — the need is as great or greater and we have the opportun¬ ity to fulfill our obligation to past, present and future generations.

Respectfully submitted,

Albert Goodhue

President

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR

A person attempting to fend off a boat from a dock by placing one foot on each is in constant danger of experiencing a separa¬ tion which ultimately may be of little benefit to the boat, the dock, and himself. In similar fashion, the staff of an old historical so¬ ciety, although able to accomplish its manifold routine duties, can easily experience a separation of the most dire magnitude when confronted with the high waves of a major renovation program. Both the routine duties and the renovation program are of the utmost importance, but the demands on the capability of the staff to stretch can be tremendous. The staff has done this, and done it well, but, if we all appear to be stretched out at this point, we hope that this summary of the Institute’s more routine, or “dry land,” events from April, 1962 through March, 1963 will show that the dock has indeed been kept in good order.

Since we own twelve structures of varying ages, shapes, and sizes, it seems that building maintenance is a perennial shark of responsibility which is constantly on the verge of devouring us. Last year the trim of the Andrew-Safford House was repainted, largely through the generosity of Mr. Osborne White, and needed chimney and gutter repairs were made. The Annex roof was fixed at the same time, and roof and fence repairs were also made at the Peirce-Nichols House. An extremely generous gift from Mrs. George Nichols will enable us to do some much needed brighten¬ ing up inside the Peirce-Nichols House before summer. After five years’ service there as custodians, the Berkley Peabodys left last fall, and we have been most fortunate in getting Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Burns as new custodians. The Pingree Barn was cleared and repainted inside, and a display ranging from our Moxie horse to the Concord stagecoach has been installed there. Late last summer, Mr. Joseph O’Neil joined the staff as part time gardener, and his ability is as needed and appreciated as are his good works evident. With our projects this year concentrating on the Peirce-Nichols House and the Cupola in the garden, in addi¬ tion to the major work inside the main buildings, it finally appears

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that the backlog of major maintenance work is being reduced to a minimum.

If maintenance is the shark in the depths, I hope it is not too metaphorically monstrous to compare attendance figures to the spouting of a whale. The large spurts are religiously recorded, while the smaller fizzles are unceremoniously forgotton. It is no secret that the attendance in almost all New England museums and historical societies has climbed steadily during the past few years. Fortunately, this has been true at the Institute also. Last year our overall attendance was almost 26,000, an increase of twenty-five percent over 1961-1962. Visitors to the Ward, Crown- inshield-Bentley, Peirce-Nichols, and Pingree Houses increased by almost a thousand. The museum had over a thousand more people than last year, even though it was closed completely to visitors for two months during renovation work. Over three hundred more persons used the library, and it, too, was closed from time to time due to moving. In addition to the above figures, approximately two thousand greater Salemites went through the Crowninshield- Bentley, Peirce-Nichols and Pingree Houses last May 26, on a free open house day sponsored by Historic Salem, Incorporated.

The library, the Institute, and the entire field of local history lost a devoted friend and leader last summer when Miss Harriet Silvester Tapley, the Institute’s Librarian Emeritus, died. A staff member from 1902 until her retirement in 1955, Miss Tapley was one of the most highly respected scholars ever to have worked in the field of Essex County history.

In the library, once again the staff is at full strength both in size and spirit. Mr. David R. Proper joined the staff last summer as Associate Librarian, and Miss Mary Ritchie replaced Mrs. Ann Berry during the winter as Library Assistant. Mrs. Dorothy Potter, our Reference Librarian, proved to be the mainstay in this year of change, and last summer attended the Seminars on American Culture at Cooperstown. Our library volunteers, Mrs. Ralf P. Emerson and Mrs. Elizabeth Flanders, and the part time staff, Mrs. Lois Martin and Messrs. Leo Freeman and Donald Nutting, have assisted immeasurably in the activities of the past year.

In the move of the main reading room and library office down¬ stairs in Daland House, and the subsequent moving of books from the Plummer Hall stack area, the library staff has supervised the

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moving and relocation of several hundred thousand volumes. In addition, our program of microfilming older newspapers has con¬ tinued, as has the cataloguing and shelving of a mountain of back¬ log materials, which has now been reduced to a large molehill. A large portion of the China Library has been relocated and better arranged, and a vast collection of anti-slavery pamphlets has been checked and reshelved in new envelopes. Work on the proper preservation and cataloguing of manuscripts has been accelerated, and a gift from the Salem Marine Society permitted us to box and shelve our log book collection properly, and to restore one of the most important local paintings ever done, The Launching of the Ship Fame by George Ropes.

Over 1800 acquisitions have come to the library. Among manu¬ scripts, Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Hammond gave a list of voters for magistrate, signed by all the representatives of Massachusetts Bay in 1677, and the Pingree heirs continued their valuable gift of nineteenth-century family commercial papers. Baker Library donated a commercial report on commerce and shipping written in 1800 by the Rev. William Bentley to Michael Walsh, a New- buryport teacher and author. The New England Historic Genea¬ logical Society gave a remarkable 1700 Indian deed to the Town of Rowley. This deed has previously eluded historians of that area.

Other manuscript acquisitions include an extremely important letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Peter Oliver in 1851, regard¬ ing Hawthorne’s use of the names Pynchon and Oliver in his works; a southeast prospect of the bridge at Ipswich in 1764; a bill of mortality sent by William Bentley to Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke covering the period from 1785 to 1797; and a journal by William Pickering of a reconnaissance voyage to Newfound¬ land in 1709.

As gifts we received the latest works of Marion V. Brewington, Daniel J. Foley, Benjamin W. Labaree, and Walter Muir White- hill. Other important imprints included a 1666 work by the Lynn pastor, Samuel Whiting, and a broadside of Dartmouth College’s second catalogue printed at Newburyport in 1789. Mr. Stephen Phillips made possible the acquisition of a bound copy of The Neriah by the Reverend Billy Cook, a group of manuscripts of the early Lynn historian, Alonzo Lewis, and a large filing cabinet

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which has given a proper home to a part of our print collection.

During the year, the Historical Collections has included a bal¬ anced diet of articles of county interest, as well as the conclusion of the important reevaluation of Elias Hasket Derby and a group of articles showing local connections with the early African trade. Work has started on the gap in the cumulative index of the Quarterly covering the period from 1908 to 1931. A meeting of the Board of Editors was held in June and many ideas were dis¬ cussed which will result, we trust, in a constant improvement of the Quarterly. It is my conviction that our publications are our most important and lasting single activity, and that we should spare no effort to improve and add to them wherever and when¬ ever possible.

Our publication sales have done amazingly well, and Miss Harris’ desk frequently looks more like an annex to the library than it does the working arena of our Office Manager. Kathryn Burke does the work of a small army as Assistant Treasurer, and the fact that I am beginning to understand many of her extensive reports is as wondrous to me as it must be alarming to her and to members of the Finance Committee. Ruth Boyd’s work as Admin¬ istrative Secretary is proof that indeed the stars smile upon us as far as our staff is concerned.

Mrs. Beechey and Mrs. Cook have performed miracles in the housekeeping department, not only in keeping up with the changes, but also in cleaning some areas that have not been re¬ vealed to human eyes for years. The shepherd of all the new work has been Ray Moore, whose work week in recent months must have seemed to him an eight-day one. Edward J. Leonard, our Constable, has performed yeoman’s service in both encouraging and assisting visitors throughout the year.

Due to the new work, our activities at the Institute were ab¬ breviated last year. Lyman H. Butterfield gave the 1962 Salem Lyceum lecture on the Adams family and their Essex County con¬ nections last April, and in September Philip Chadwick Foster Smith spoke at the Institute on the Wenham Lake ice trade. Since the Music Room overflowed on this occasion, we are all looking forward to our new lecture hall area and hope that by fall or winter we will be able to resume our lectures and special events on a more normal basis.

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One of the most herculean and rewarding efforts of the year was a special exhibition at the Ellis Memorial Antiques Show in Boston last fall. This exhibit, made possible through the gener¬ osity of the State Street Bank and Trust Company, brought to¬ gether some of our most important library and museum treasures and was seen in one week by as many people as visit the Institute in half a year. It was a stimulating experience for all of us, and the only disappointed persons were the few eager visitors who did not read the signs on the booths and were deeply crushed to find our objects were not for sale.

During the year Huldah Smith, in addition to her lectures on the “floral circuit,” lectured to the China Students’ Club in Boston, the Sturbridge Antique Collectors’ Weekend, and to the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. My own lectures have included formal talks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Williamsburg Antiques Forum, as well as seven others to groups and historical societies nearer home. During the year I was elected to the board of Historic Salem, Incorporated.

Last year our volunteers gloriously outnumbered the staff at a ratio of over three to one! M’Lou Fales conducted another volun¬ teer guides’ course which added nine new guides to our ranks. During last summer our volunteers guided 340 out of the 550 half-days our houses were open. In addition to our thirty-three library and house volunteers, four of whom gave additional time in the museum, we must not forget the three musketeers. Messrs. Sargent Bradlee, James R. Hammond, and Ross Whittier have appeared in the museum with rewarding regularity, and have pushed, lifted, changed, cleaned, carried, and commented on in¬ numerable objects. Our deepest thanks go to all our volunteers and honorary curators, and especially to Mary Bourne and Re¬ becca Haskell for their able and enthusiastic co-captaining of the Ladies’ Committee.

Loans of library and museum materials were made to the Carey Memorial Library in Lexington, Gore Place, the Newark Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Wenham Museum.

The museum has had a busy and varied year. A new position of Registrar was created and filled by Mrs. Martha Hassell. Marion Thomas resigned as Museum Assistant in June and was replaced

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by Mrs. Dorothy Lalone. Miss Mary Huntley joined the staff as a part time assistant, and during the summer Marytha Allen, Ann Merrill, and Polly Prescott performed valuable part time work in showing the houses.

The Old-Time Sportsman’s Show was taken down in the early fall, and Huldah Smith has concentrated her talents on the re¬ doing of existing exhibits and on the start of making sense of our storage areas, both tasks involving the moving and moving of countless objects. During the year five of our paintings were re¬ stored, and it is a great thrill to see old friends — both people and scenes — cleaner and better than ever. We all hope the same fate may soon befall others.

Over fifty special school and adult groups visited the museum and houses. These included school students from New York, New Hampshire, and Maine schools, as well as Massachusetts, and graduate students from Heritage Foundation, Mystic Seaport and Winterthur.

Three hundred ninety-eight accessions were recorded during the year. Important gifts included two garden figures from the Pickman-Derby-Brookhouse House given by Mrs. Charles M. Barker. Mrs. Paul Brubeck donated a wax portrait of her ancestor, William Gray, and Sargent Bradlee gave an early nineteenth-cen¬ tury Sheffield hot water plate which belonged originally to Benja¬ min W. Crowninshield. Frederick J. Bradlee gave to the Crownin- shield-Bentley House an extremely early and important tall case clock made by Henry Harmson of Marblehead in the 1730’$. From the estate of Miss Helen T. Chickering came an imposing mahogany Chippendale desk and bookcase, owned originally by Samuel Osgood of Andover, the first Postmaster General.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Cousins gave approximately ninety pieces of their superb kitchen equipment collection to the Crown- inshield-Bentley House. A group of firearms, including a very fine set of English target pistols, came as the bequest of Captain Marion Eppley, and Mrs. Stephen S. Fitzgerald donated thirteen chests of early woodworking tools collected by Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lothrop gave a large pastel portrait of Louisa Crowninshield painted by Francis Alexander.

Mrs. George Nichols gave to the Peirce-Nichols House a very

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stylish Federal Salem candlestand and six early nineteenth cen¬ tury prints, all of which were among the early furnishings of the house. One of the most important groups of objects received by the Institute in recent years came from the estate of Marion Felt Sargent through Mrs. Rodman A. Nichols. Included were one of the finest small Massachusetts kneehole blockfront pieces yet known, a Spanish foot corner chair owned originally by Captain John Felt, the freeman’s certificate of George Heussler, and Felt family portraits by J. P. Merrill and Charles Osgood. We are in process of receiving as a gift from Messrs. Benjamin, Richard S., and William H. Shreve the important set of Daland-Shreve fur¬ niture which has been on loan in the Daland House Victorian room. Stack’s of New York again made indeed a generous con¬ tribution to our Coin Fund.

Other key museum acquisitions included English and Chinese porcelains, a tall case clock made by Edmund Currier of Salem, one of the few tall case Salem clocks known, and a unique bed for the Crowninshield-Bentley House labeled by the famous Salem cabinetmaker Thomas Needham. To date, this is the only record¬ ed labeled American Federal bed.

This, then, comprises the activities of the past year. Two words remain to be said. One is in regard to the Council. Not only is the Council responsible for the planning of the immediate and long range renovation and expansion work at the Institute, but it has been through their generosity that we have been able to start on it. In addition, many of the Council members have taken a personal interest in seeing that their friends have been made aware of our work here. I would like to thank all members of the Council for all they have done. Above all I would like to thank the chairman of the Development Committee for all that he has done, and our president for his understanding, patience, and, par¬ ticularly, his action.

The final word is a golden one. On March 31, 1913, a young lady from Marblehead wrote in her diary, “Started in to work at Essex Institute. Fine girls.” The girls have stayed fine, and this year is the young lady’s fiftieth at the Institute. Bessom Harris’ ability can be measured by the high regard and endearment in which she is held by everyone, and her durability can best be

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measured by the fact that she has survived nine secretaries, acting directors, and directors — one of whom was herself! Congratula¬ tions, Bess, and may we soon realize your fondest dreams here.

Respectfully submitted,

Dean A. Fales, Jr.

Director

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

I have the privilege of presenting to you my Seventh Annual Report as your Treasurer, for the fiscal year which ended on March 31, 1963.

This is the report of a year of active and constructive function¬ ing by an organization which has again proven itself to be worthy of its great traditions and its past history. As you have learned from our President, this has been an eventful year in the life of the Institute.

In my last report, I expressed the hope that careful manage¬ ment, coupled with the expected increased income from our per¬ manent funds, would enable us this year to balance the budget. However, the Finance Committee and the Council courageously faced certain essential needs of the buildings and their operation, and salary problems, and appropriated sums necessary to care for the most important. Hence, we closed the year with an operating deficit which totalled $6,881.27, making our accumulated deficit to date $7,817.01.

Again this year, we have benefited from the generosity of our members and friends. Two have taken out life membership. Dona¬ tions by members of the Council and friends for the Renovation and Development Fund have totalled $28,005.62, which, with accumulated interest of $157.25, and $4,996.72 to be trans¬ ferred from three Funds available, has enabled the long desired work to be begun and carried on to date, $21,260.99 having been expended prior to March 31st.

A legacy totalling $5,000.00 was received under the will of Marion Felt Sargent; a further gift from the Trustees under the will of Joan U. Newhall of $200.00, which was added to the Turner and Newhall Memorial Funds; and gifts of $1,000.00 and $600.00 respectively were made by Mrs. George Nichols for Peirce-Nichols House repairs and by Osborne White for painting on the Safford House. Additional sums were received, as donations from various friends, amounting to $1,351.61, of which $312.49 was for specific work to be done and which work was done. Also,

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$1,500.00 was received from the sale of a section of the Corne wallpaper.

As a result of the death of Nannie B. Phillips, widow of the late James Duncan Phillips, both of whom had demonstrated their loyalty and generosity to the Institute over a period of many years, the trust fund established under Mr. Phillips’ will has become available for the benefit of the Institute, and will, in fu¬ ture years, prove to be a substantial addition to our current income. It is not yet reflected in our financial report. We hope to make good use of this added revenue and to expand the usefulness of the Institute.

During the year, the interest of our members and friends in the Crowninshield-Bentley House was again displayed, by contri¬ butions totalling $2,629.00. This makes a grand total received for this purpose of $57,506.67, plus $8,000.00 contributed by the Institute from its Preservation and Expansion Fund. We in¬ tend that this $8,000.00 will be the beginning of an endowment fund for the support and maintenance of this house, similar to that protecting the Pingree House.

During the year, bonds having a face value of $85,000.00 matured or were called. $65,000.00 U. S. Treasury bonds were exchanged for new bonds of another maturity. The proceeds of the other bonds were added to the Savings Bank deposits.

Stock splits were received from seven corporations, six being two shares for one, and the seventh two and one-half for one. In addition to the stock splits, four corporations paid dividends in stock in addition to cash dividends.

E. I. duPont de Nemours distributed 100 shares of General Motors Corporation as a distribution on account, pursuant to a court order.

In our current operations, the highlights of our income were from the following sources:

Invested Funds $67,192.10 (an increase of $2,808.05 over last year)

Sales $ 4,097.01 (a decrease of $2,706.25)

Admissions $ 1,938.95 (up $377.30)

Donations $ 1,951.61 as previously reported (up

$121.07)

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Annual Dues $ 7,555.00 (up $525.00)

the total from all sources available for operations being $69,334.80 (an increase of $920.18 over last year).

The expenses of this year’s operation totalled $76,216.07 (an increase of $6,865.71) and being $6,881.27 in excess of the income.

Our bonds this last year earned 4.29% on their book value of $601,177.28 and 4.38% on their market value of $589,047.25. Our stocks earned 10.32% on their book value of $378,067.48, but only 3.21% on their market value of $1,214,747.53, ex¬ ceeding their book value by $836,680.05.

With our savings and commercial bank deposits, the book value of all our invested funds totalled $1,079,397.19, but their market value amounted to $1,903,947.21. If we add to these values the real estate owned bv the Institute, even at its book value, it would produce a total of $2,334,112.27. In addition, we also have on hand at least $50,000.00 worth of books, mer¬ chandise and supplies for sale, but which are not scheduled on our balance sheet. This does not include the priceless contents of the various Institute buildings.

On March 31, 1963, the end of the fiscal year, the Institute owed no bills other than current operational expenses. Some of the later bills for the renovation were outstanding on that date, but had not been cleared for payment, the funds to pay them being available.

At this meeting, you will hear from those whose vision and in¬ spired leadership have made possible the substantial changes being made in the structure and interior of the Institute buildings. Their stories will be fascinating and exciting. My report, however, deals only with the funds which were contributed by members of the Council and by friends, amounting to $28,005.62, to which are to be added certain substantial funds on hand and available for this purpose. Before the work is finished, the total amount to be expended will exhaust these funds and require additional sums. The splendid response to date gives us confidence that the neces¬ sary sums will be forthcoming when we ask for them.

I acknowledge with appreciation the cooperation I have received from the President, Director, and members of the Finance Com-

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mittee, and especially from Bessom Harris and Kathryn Burke of the Financial Department of the Institute who have proven in¬ valuable.

I am very glad that Miss Harris’ fiftieth anniversary of faithful and devoted service to the Institute has been suitably recognized.

The Treasurer’s books and accounts, the insurance policies and securities of the Institute, have been examined and carefully audited by Harris S. Knight, C. P. A., of Salem, and his report has been duly submitted to the President and the Finance Com¬ mittee.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert W. Hill

Treasurer

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CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET

March 31, 1963

Cash

Savings Bank Deposits Bonds — Book Value Stocks — Book Value Real Estate

Overexpended Income Accounts

$ 1,840.60

98,311.83 601,177.28 378,067.48 430,165.06

8,386.55

Total

$

FUNDS

Funds — Principal and Income Restricted 33,1 59*59

Funds — Principal Invested Income Restricted 292,747.25 Funds — “Margaret Duncan Phillips Fund” 20,918.62 Funds — Principal Invested Income Unrestricted 329,003.96 Funds — Principal and Income Unrestricted 587,228.67 Surplus Principal 226,477.56

Income Accounts 28,413.15

Total $

Investments

Dues

Other Income

CONDENSED INCOME ACCOUNT

67,192.10 7,555.00 1 1,361.06

TOTAL INCOME Deduct:

Miscellaneous Income Credited to

Restricted Income Accounts 5,651.03

Restricted Income from Investments 14,615.66

Add:

Restricted Income available for General Operations

NET INCOME AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL PURPOSES EXPENDITURES:

Corporation 8,162.52

Salaries 50,797.49

Buildings and Grounds Expense 8,202.97

Publication 5,112.70

Houses 2,389.69

Miscellaneous 1,550.70

1,517,948.80

1,517,948.80

$86,108.16

20,266.69

65,841.47

3,493-33

$69,334-8o

76,216.07

INCOME OVEREXPENDED

($6,881.27)

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

259

FUNDS— PRINCIPAL AND INCOME RESTRICTED

March 31, 1963

China Library Room Fund — “To be applied to Providing

suitable room for China Library” — Est. 1902 $976.45

John James Currier Fund — Accumulation from sale of

histories, to be disposed of by Directors — Est. 1914 589.23

Building Fund — Est. 1929 Renovation and Development Fund

Donors to Renovation

William Hammond Bowden u/w Edith M. Burbeck Charles H. P. Copeland Mr. and Mrs. U. Haskell Crocker Joseph E. Fellows, Jr.

Paul T. Haskell Harold D. Hodgkinson

Charles

3,431-04

28,162.87

$33,159-59

and Development Fund

Mrs. Bertram K. Little Augustus P. Loring Mrs. Edward H. Osgood William Bradford Osgood Stephen Phillips John Pickering Rollo G. and Alice G. Silver S. Tapley

THE MARGARET DUNCAN PHILLIPS FUND—

Income for Publication Dept, after 10% of in¬ come is added to Principal $20,749.51

Balance April 1, 1962

Income 1962-1963 — $1,691.05 — $1,521.94 to Publication Dept. — 10% or $169.11 to Principal 1 69.11

$20,918.62

FUNDS— PRINCIPAL INVESTED— INCOME RESTRICTED

March 31, 1963

NANCY D. COLE— “Ichabod Tucker Fund”

“Historical Department and purchase of books and binding” 5,000.00

NANCY D. COLE— “Thomas Cole Fund”

“Purchase of books and apparatus for the Micro¬ scopical Department and for the Library” 5,000.00

ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY

“Historical Purposes” 700.00

ESSEX COUNTY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

“Natural History or Horticulture” 700.00

AUGUSTUS STORY

“Purchase, Preservation and Publication of his¬ torical material, proceedings and memoirs” 10,000.00

JAMES A. EMMERTON

“Support of Historical Collections” 10,000.00

MARTHA G. WHEATLAND

“Purchase of books for Library” 10,800.00

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SALEM LYCEUM

“Support of Free Lectures”

WM. MACK, M. D.

“Purchase of rare and expensive works of merit in medicine and surgery”

HARRIET P. FOWLER

“Salary of an assistant librarian who shall have charge of donations made by Miss Fowler” FREDERICK LAMSON

“Purchase of objects for museum, illustrating early New England life and customs”

ELIZABETH C. WARD

“Purchase of books and pictures relating to China and the Chinese”

LYDIA A. VERY — “Jones and Washington Very Memorial Fund”

“Acquisition, care and preservation of books and manuscripts of Essex County authors, also care and maintenance of cemetery lot.”

CAROLINE R. DERBY

“Care of Derby Tomb, balance to be used for general purposes”

ALDEN PERLEY WHITE

“Purchase of books”

WM. GRAY BROOKS

“Purchase of books for Library”

HENRY W. BELKNAP

“Purchase of objects for Museum”

ELIZABETH R. VAUGHAN

“Care of Doll House”

CRO WNIN SHIELD-BENTLE Y HOUSE FUND Established April 1959

Total Donations prior years 62,877.67

Donors current year:

Henry Freeman Allen Frederick J. Bradlee

TOTAL CURRENT YEAR 2,629.00

TOTAL FUND

JOHN WARD HOUSE FUND Established May 1961

PEIRCE-NICHOLS HOUSE MEMORIAL

PINGREE HOUSE

Gift of Anna P. Phillips, Richard Wheatland, Stephen Wheatland, David P. Wheatland, Lucia P. Fulton, Anna Ordway, Martha Ingraham, and Stephen Phillips

PINGREE HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND

Gift of Anna W. Ordway, Stephen Phillips, David P .Wheatland, Lucia P. Fulton, Stephen Wheat- land, Mary K. Wheatland, and Martha Ingraham

STEPHEN W. PHILLIPS BEQUEST

“Purchase of books and manuscripts and preser¬ vation of same”

3,000.00

5,000.00

3,000.00

1,000.00

9,000.00

17,342.80

500.00

1,136.11

500.00

1,000.00

3,000.00

65,506.67

4,670.12

38,325.38

30,000.00

64,566.17

3,000.00

$292,747.25

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

26l

FUNDS— PRINCIPAL AND INCOME UNRESTRICTED

March 31, 1963

Benefactors:

George L. Ames	$122,224.65
Sally A. Bowen	500.00
Francis B. C. Bradlee	1,000.00
Mary Endicott Carnegie	10,000.00
Sarah A. Cheever	500.00
William J. Cheever	20,000.00 3,828.14
Mary S. Cleveland
Walter Scott Dickson	35>393-x 1
Abby W. Ditmore	1,500.00
Luis F. Emilio	12,201.95
William C. Endicott	50,000.00
Frank P. Fabens	2,000.00
Esther Files	1,000.00
Mary Eliza Gould	11,512.24
George Wilbur Hooper	5,000.00
William B. Howes	25,000.00
J. Frederick Hussey	2,000.00
Susan S. Kimball	1,000.00
Annie F. King	500.00
Helen D. Lander	1,000.00
Lucy A. Lander	2,500.00
Elizabeth L. Lathrop	15,457.50
Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr.	1,000.00
Esther C. Mack	4,000.00
Fanny P. Mason	10,000.00
Harriet G. McMullan	3,000.00
Edward S. Morse	5,000.00
Seth W. Morse	9,929.24
Isabel S. Newcomb	1,000.00
Elizabeth S. Osgood	1,000.00
Robert Osgood	15,000.00
William B. Osgood	100.00
Charles L. Peirson	1,100.00
Stephen Willard Phillips	5,000.00
Dudley L. Pickman	2,500.00
David Pingree	35,000.00
Abel H. Proctor	5,000.00
Neal Rantoul	10,300.00
Mary S. Rouse	32,830.64
Marion Felt Sargent	5,000.00
Mary T. Saunders	1,000.00
George Plummer Smith	4,770.00
Annie G. Spinney	1,000.00
Lucy W. Stickney	30,158.25
J. Henry Stickney	1,000.00
Annie S. Symonds	778.70
Elizabeth C. Ward	6,973.22
Abbie C. West	4,075.00
Elizabeth Wheatland	7,626.66
Abigail O. and Mary E. Williams Funds:	500.00
Essex Institute Preservation and Expansion	24,521.80
Safford House	33,947-57 $587,228.67

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FUNDS— PRINCIPAL INVESTED— INCOME UNRESTRICTED

March 31, 1963

General Endowment Funds Benefactors : William Agge	100.00
William Gardner Barker	400.00
Charles Hastings Brown	200.00
Charles Davis	5,000.00
George B. Farrington	25,129.86
Jennie K. Hyde	5,000.00
Clement Stevens Houghton	500.00
Harriet Rose Lee	2,000.00
Dr. Edward D. Lovejoy	10,000.00
John Peabody Monks, M. D.	1,000.00
Harold Peabody	500.00
Robert Peele and Elizabeth R. Peele	2,120.00
Margaret D. Phillips	1,000.00
Stephen Phillips	2,000.00
David Pingree	5,000.00
Arthur W. West	5,000.00
Memorial Endowments Benefactors: In Memory of: Mrs. William Page Andrews WILLIAM PAGE ANDREWS	1,000.00
Miss Caroline O. Emmerton, Mrs. David Mason Little, Mrs. George Hodges Shattuck, Mr. David Kimball, Mrs. Katherine Kimball Baker, Mrs. Talbot Aldrich, Mrs. Rosamond de Laittre JOHN BERTRAM	4,1 50.00
Mrs. Franklin Green Balch, Mrs. Charles Pickering Bow- ditch, Miss Cornelia Bowditch, Ingersoll Bowditch, Mrs. Ernest Amory Codman NATHANIEL BOWDITCH 1773-1838	1,000.00
Miss Jenny Brooks HENRY MASON BROOKS	54,789.62
Mrs. Francis Ward Chandler HENRY TUCKER DALAND	100.00
Frances D. Higgins MERIAN FISKE DONOGHUE	1,000.00
James V. Eagleston CAPT. JOHN H. EAGLESTON	1,600.00
Mary C. Ellis MARY CROWNINSHIELD (WHITTRIDGE) ELLIS	25.00
Miss Sarah Tucker Franks REV. JAMES POTTER FRANKS	25.00
From his descendants NATHANIEL FROTHINGHAM	1,000.00
Mrs. Robert Wales Emmons THOMAS GARDNER	750.00

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Benefactors: In Memory of:

Francis Gray, Miss Hope Gray, Mrs. John Chipman Gray, Ralph Weld Gray, Mrs. Reginald Gray, Mrs. Russell Gray, Stephen M. W. Gray

WILLIAM GRAY	700.00
Mrs. Ella Harrington Harris RICHARD AND ELLEN URSULA HARRINGTON	50.00
Eleanor Hassam HASSAM FUND	82,239.48
Mrs. James Jackson Higginson, Mrs. Charles Jackson DR. JAMES JACKSON HIGGINSON	200.00
Mrs. Richard Spofford Russell THOMAS FRANKLIN HUNT (1814-1898)	5,000.00
Mrs. Alpheus Hyatt ALPHEUS HYATT	1,000.00
Miss Alice B. Willson FRANCIS HENRY LEE	5,000.00
Joan U. Newhall JOAN AND MILO NEWHALL	700.00
Charles Stuart Osgood CHARLES STUART OSGOOD	3,000.00
George Swinnerton Parker BRADSTREET PARKER (1897-1918) RICHARD PERKINS PARKER (1900-1921)	5,000.00
Mrs. Morton Prince, formerly Fanny Lithgow Payson CLARA ENDICOTT PEABODY (wife of Arthur Lithgow Payson) 1828-1856	5,000.00
William Crowninshield Endicott ELLEN PEABODY (wife of William Crowninshield Endicott) 1833-1927	5,000.00
George Peabody Gardner, Mrs. Augustus Peabody Loring, formerly Ellen Gardner; Mrs. George Howard Monks, formerly Olga Eliza Gardner; John Lowell Gardner ELIZA ENDICOTT PEABODY (wife of George Augustus Gardner) 1834-1876	5,000.00
Miss Fanny Peabody Mason FANNY PEABODY (wife of William Powell Mason) 1840-1895	5,000.00
Joseph A. Peabody JOSEPH AUGUSTUS PEABODY	500.00
Francis Welles Hunnewell WILLARD SILSBEE PEELE	1,000.00
James Duncan Phillips STEPHEN H. PHILLIPS	5,000.00

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Benefactors: In Memory of: Hon. Robert Walcott HON. BENJAMIN PICKMAN (1763-1843) AUSTIN DERBY PICKMAN (1769-1836)	100.00
Arthur Proctor Pousland DAVID N. POUSLAND	25.00
From his children ROBERT SAMUEL RANTOUL	6,000.00
Mrs. Robert Rantoul ROBERT RANTOUL	100.00
Miss Miriam Shaw MISS CLARA ENDICOTT SEARS	5,000.00
Mrs. William Sutton WILLIAM SUTTON (1800-1882)	5,000.00
Jacob Bancroft MARY ANN SEAVER	500.00
Miss Jane Francis Tuckerman DR. J. FRANCIS TUCKERMAN	25.00
Miss Jane Francis Tuckerman LUCY SALTONSTALL TUCKERMAN	25.00
Joan U. Newhall JAMES H. TURNER	700.00
Mrs. Ira Vaughan IRA VAUGHAN (1864-1927)	10,000.00
Miss Mary Devereux Waters WILLIAM CROWNINSHIELD WATERS (1830-1911)	25.00
Mrs. Arthur W. West ARTHUR W. WEST	2,000.00
Mrs. Stephen Willard Phillips HON. STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND (1824-1892)	20,000.00
Mary C. White DANIEL APPLETON WHITE	1,000.00
Arthur Foote, Mrs. John Bois Tileston, Mrs. Eliza Orne White, Miss Mary Wilder Tileston, Jr. DANIEL APPLETON WHITE	300.00
From his children and grandchildren EDMUND B. WILLSON	500.00
Thought and Work Club KATE TANNATT WOODS	25.00
Life Membership Fund	16,400.00
Manuscript Preservation	1,000.00
Original Account	500.00
	$329,003.96

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

265

DONORS TO THE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC HOUSES

Ames, Spencer G.

Baker, Descendants of Isaac and Lydia Larcom Baker Baldwin, Mrs. Sherman Barker, Mrs. Charles M.

Batchelder, Mrs. Roland B. Beveridge, Mrs. Albert J.

Bowden, John S.

Bradlee, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Bradlee, Sargent Browne, Theodore C.

Brubeck, Mrs. Paul Butler, Mrs. H. Glover Carroll, Mrs. Henry G.

Chickering, Helen T., Estate of Cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Davis, Mrs. Wilbur M.

Eppley, Marion, Capt., Estate of Fales, Mr. & Mrs. Dean A., Jr. Fillos, Stevan Fitzgerald, Mrs. Stephen Grossman, Hyman Hagar, Helen

Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Holt, Mrs. Carlyle H.

Howard, Harris G., Estate of Hutchings, Carrie E. R.

Jones, Mrs. Eliot N.

Jones, W. Carlton Kipper, Katrina

Little, Amelia and Margaret B. Lothrop, Mr. & Mrs. Francis B. Luquer, Lea S.

Masters, Mrs. Phyllis Morrill, Mrs. G. Gordon Morse, Charles M.

Morse, Sadie May National Gallery of Art, Washing¬ ton, D. C.

Newhall, Mrs. Beaumont Nichols, Mrs. George Nichols, Mrs. Rodman A.

Phillips, Stephen Phippen, Walter G.

Poor, Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Proper, David R.

Rantoul, Harriet C.

Rogers, Mrs. Horatio

Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Walter O.

Rose, Mrs. Reginald P.

Sargent, Mrs. William Denny, Es¬ tate of

Schofield, Mrs. Mary Woodwell Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Warner, Mrs. Elmer H.

Waters, William C.

Weadock, H. B.

Wheatland, Stephen Whittemore Associates, Inc. Whyte, Mrs. Peter

DONORS TO THE LIBRARY

African Studies Program, Boston University Allen, Thomas J.

American Heritage Publishing Company

Anderson, Helen Goodrich Andover Organ Company, Inc. Applegate, Howard L.

Baker Library, Harvard University

Bank of Greece

Bathe, Greville

Bennett, Roger

Benson, Mrs. Thomas I.

Berry, John N., Ill Boston Public Library Bowden, W. Hammond Bowdoin College Brady, Cyrus T.

Brewington, Mr. and Mrs. M. V.

Burke, Kathryn

Bushby, William, Estate of

Cahoon, Joan

Clark, Bertha

Clark, C. E. Frazer, Jr.

Cleworth Publishing Company Cogswell, Francis D.

Collins, Francis X.

Colonial Williamburg, Inc. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Continental Insurance Companies Copeland, Charles H. P.

Crown Publishers DeMolen, Richard L.

Dinan, Dennis A., Jr.

Dix, Albert W., Jr.

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Down East, Camden, Maine Du Mont, John Sanderson Durnin, Richard G.

Elsmith, Leonard Emerson, John P.

Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P.

Fales, Mr. and Mrs. Dean A., Jr. Fellows, Sidney Firebaugh, Vera P.

Foley, Daniel J.

Free Public Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts Gerould, Edwin M.

Goldsmith, Harold I.

Goodhue, Albert Goodhue, James P.

Griffin, John J.

Hall, Frank N.

Hamilton, Harlan

Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Roland B.

Hagar, Helen C.

Harrington, Miss H. C.

Henkel, Mrs. Clarence G.

Historic Salem, Inc.

Hood, Harvey P.

Hussey, Harold D.

Hutchins, Carrie E. R., Estate of Ipswich Historical Society Iron Worker, Lynchburg, Virginia Jewett, Everett D.

Johns Hopkins Press Johns Hopkins University Johnson, Mrs. C. Hudson Joseph Dixon Crucible Company Kellog, Dr. Robert King, Ethel

Labaree, Benjamin W.

Lalone, Mrs. Emerson H.

Lynch, Francis J.

Massachusetts Historical Society Micro Photo, Inc.

Missouri State Historical Society Nelson, Truman

New Brunswick Museum, Canada New England Historic Genealogi¬ cal Society

New York Public Library Newark Museum Newcomb and Gauss Company Newcomen Society Newman, Harry Shaw Nimblett, Mrs. John Northy, R. Guy

Old Court House Museum, Vicks¬ burg, Virginia

Pao, Dr. Tsen-Peng, National His¬ torical Museum, Taiwan Parker Brothers, Inc.

Peabody Museum Perley, Eleanor S.

Philadelphia Inquirer Phillips, Stephen Phippen, Dr. Walter G.

Pickering, John Potter, Mrs. Charles M.

Prescott, Worrall D.

Proper, David R.

Randolph, Wassell Rantoul, Harriet C.

Reardon, Mrs. Robert W.

Rhode Island Historical Society Roger Conant Cooperative Bank, Salem

Ropes, Ruth Rose, Mrs. Eugene Rushlight Club Ryan, Pat M., Jr.

Salem Chamber of Commerce Salem Evening News Salem Group 218 Salem Police Department Sanborn, Mrs. Howard W. Sargent, Mrs. William Denny, Es¬ tate of

Shreve, Mrs. Benjamin Smith, Huldah Smith, Peter Social Science Institute Southeast Asia Studies, Yale Uni¬ versity

Stein, Simon A.

Stoddard, Roger E.

Suzuki, Jurichi Tgettes, Nicholas Thompson, Lucy Tighe, Benjamin Time, Inc.

University of Missouri Press University Publishing, Inc. Watkins, Lura Woodside Weadock, H. B.

Weil, Jack Wells, Robert

Wenham, Massachusetts, Town of Wenham Museum Wheeler, Mrs. Caleb Wickens, Barbara J.

Widger, Thurlow S.

Woman’s Day Woman’s Friend Society Wright, Mrs. Sue Jewett

3 6234 10001547

NECROLOGY

Charles Miller Barker

Miss Marion Ursula Chapman

Albert Elvin Cole

Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge

Cornelius Crane

Henry Everett Darling

Robert M. Driver

Mrs. George Oscar Eaton

Harley Heman Forsyth

Merrill Griswold

Mrs. Montgomery Hare

Peer P. Johnson, M.D.

Mrs. Samuel O. King Francis Skiddy Marden Keith Merrill Mrs. James Paige Mrs. James Duncan Phillips Miss Josephine Price Warren Pulsifer Huston Rawls John C. Rice, Jr.

Mrs. Edward L. Richardson Mrs. Richard D. Sanders Mrs. Benjamin Daland Shreve Miss M. Florence Silsbury Miss Harriet Silvester Tapley Charles Culliton Tuttle Mrs. Richard Wheatland

Date Elected	Date	Deceased
Apr.	7>	193°	July	3>	1961
Dec.	4>	1922	Feb.	x4>	1963
May	7>	1894	Oct.	10,	1962
Sept.	1?y	1935	Apr.	19)	1962
Jan.	*4>	1958	July	9)	1962
Mar.	4>	1912	July	13)	1962
May	11,	1948	May	20,	1962
Feb.	1,	1932	Aug.	6,	1962
Mar.	8,	1938	May	26,	1 962
Sept.	1 3>	1955	Jan.	7)	1962
June	1 1,	1957	June		1962
Sept.	i7>	1935	Feb.	28,	1963
June	i3>	1950	Nov.	8,	1962
Dec.	12,	1950	Apr.	21,	1962
Sept.	9>	1947	June	8,	1959
Mar.	9>	1954
June	6,	1921	Jan.	4)	1963
June	11,	1935	Apr.	30)	1962
Dec.	9>	1952	Dec.	1,	1962
Sept.	1 3>	1955	Oct.	19)	1962
Mar.	6,	1962	May	i7)	1962
Feb.	12,	1957	May	22,	1 962
May	1 3>	1945	May	14)	1962
June	6,	1921	Dec.	17)	1962
Oct.	7>	1929	Aug.	9)	1962
Aug.	2,	1915	July	3)	1962
Sept.	12,	1923	Dec.	16,	1962
Dec.	1,	1919	Oct.	30)	1962

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