ESSEX INSTITUTE

Annual Report
1965 - 1966

ESSEX INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT

1965-1966

OFFICERS

ALBERT GOODHUE

President

STEPHEN PHILLIPS

CHARLES S. TAPLEY
Vice-Presidents

ROBERT W. HILL
Treasurer

PAUL T. HASKELL
Secretary

COUNCIL

Term expires 1967:

JOHN L. GARDNER
HAROLD D. HODGKINSON
JOHN PICKERING
DAVID P. WHEATLAND

Term expires 1969:

J. SANGER ATTWILL
ERNEST S. DODGE
PAUL T. HASKELL
ROLLO G. SILVER

Term expires 1968:

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

Term expires 1970:
ALBERT GOODHUE
KENNETH B. MURDOCK
MRS. BERTRAM K. LITTLE
CHARLES S. TAPLEY

STANDING COMMITTEES

FINANCE COMMITTEE

PAUL T. HASKELL, Chairman
JOHN L. GARDNER
AUGUSTUS P. LORING
HAROLD G. MACOMBER

ROBERT W. HILL, Treasurer
STEPHEN PHILLIPS
JOHN PICKERING

LIBRARY AND PUBLICATIONS

W. HAMMOND BOWDEN,

Chairman

ERNEST S. DODGE
BENJAMIN W. LABAREE
KENNETH B. MURDOCK
STEPHEN PHILLIPS

ROLLO G. SILVER

CHARLES S. TAPLEY
KATHERINE S. THOMPSON
DAVID P. WHEATLAND

MUSEUM COMMITTEE

MRS. BERTRAM K. LITTLE

Chairman

J. SANGER ATTWILL
FREDERICK J. BRADLEE

HONORARY

Honorary Curator of Arms :
Honorary Curator of Clocks:
Honorary Curator of Coins :
Honorary Curator of Silver :

HAROLD D. HODGKINSON
DR. GEORGE NICHOLS, JR.
JOHN PICKERING

CURATORS

RICHARD K. SPRAGUE
ARTHUR P. SULLIVAN
LEA S. LUQUER
MARTHA GANDY FALES

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STAFF

DEAN A. PALES, Jr.
Director

Managing Editor

Library

DAVID R. PROPER
Librarian

MRS. CHARLES A. POTTER
Reference Librarian

MISS MARY M. RITCHIE
Library Assistant

*MRS. PAUL T. MARTIN
Library Assistant

*MRS, ROBERT DARINGi
Library Assistant

•^DONALD NUTTING2
Library Assistant

’^TIMOTHY O’BRIEN
Library Page

Maintenance

RAY K. MOORE
Custodian

MRS. ROBERT J. BEECHEY, SR.
Housekeeper

*MRS. ’WILLIAM COOK

Assistant Housekeeper

’'JOSEPH O’NEIL
Gardener

EDWARD G. LEONARD
Constable

* Part time

1. Appointed Jan. i, 1966

2. Resigned Oct. 31, 1965

Museum

MRS. GILBERT R. PAYSON
Curator

’'MRS. JOHN HASSELL
Registrar

MRS. EMERSON HUGH LALONE
Museum Assistant

’'MISS MARY HUNTLEY
Museum Assistant

’'MRS. MONTGOMERY MERRILL
House Guide

’'MRS. RAY K. MOORE
House Guide

’'MISS PAULA P. PRESCOTT
House Guide

Administration

’'MRS. JOHN T. BOYD

Administrative Secretary

MISS BESSOM S. HARRIS
Office Manager

MISS KATHRYN BURKE
Assistant Treasurer

MRS. HUGH NELSON

Administrative Assistant

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

Since we met here for our annual meeting in 1965 the various
activities of the Institute have continued at an ever increasing rate.
To give you a better understanding of what has happened this
past year we have asked the Museum Curator, Mrs. Gilbert
Payson, and our Librarian, Mr. David Proper, to give reports
on their departments. As you will see, they have been far from
idle and it is apparent that the Museum and Library are in good
and busy hands.

I shall limit my part in the proceedings this evening to those
areas where the Council or Board of Trustees functions. Al¬
though we try not to interfere with the activities of members of
the staff, our decisions have varying effects on them ranging from
mild ripples to monstrous tidal waves. It seems that this year we
have been concentrating on tidal waves. However, by some
miracle of resiliency and buoyancy the staff is still very much
afloat.

The most important undertaking of the past year has been
the continuation of our fund raising program. As of today we
have received $388,530, and have firm pledges for an additional
$67,800, or a total of $456,330.

Of this amount $67,000 is restricted for purposes other than
construction and the Council voted to transfer an additional
$67,000 in gifts to the principal funds of the Institute.

In effect we received a further addition of capital by the gener¬
ous action of the Pingree heirs in making available excess in¬
come from the Pingree House Fund for the general purposes of
the Institute.

These two changes should increase our annual unrestricted
income by about $7,500 per year and will be a great help in re¬
ducing our operating deficit.

When restricted accounts, fund raising expenses, and archi¬
tects’ fees have been deducted from the total amount received,
we now have $223,000 available for construction. Admittedly
this is short of our original goal, but we are most grateful to the
373 people who have made contributions to our fund. I would
like to mention particularly the very substantial and generous

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contributions of Mr. Stephen Phillips and Mr. David Rockefeller.

On December 7th last year the Council voted to authorize the
preparation of final plans by the firm of Campbell, Aldrich and
Nulty of Boston for remodeling the front hall and constructing
an addition to the library stacks. It was also voted that these
drawings be submitted to a minimum of five contractors to obtain
bids for the work. These bids have been received and I am
pleased to report that Connolly Brothers Inc. of Beverly was the
low bidder with a price of $374,850. The contract was signed
last week and we anticipate that work on these projects will start
before the end of the week.

Although we do not have all the money necessary for our con¬
struction program, the Council was unanimous in its decision to
go ahead. The need for enlarging the front hall to provide an
elevator and additional office space is readily apparent. Even
greater is the need for providing fireproof library stacks for all
and not just a part of our irreplaceable books and manuscripts.

Building costs have been increasing at an annual rate of about
7 percent each year, and it was our considered judgment that we
should start construction now, when we had a very favorable bid
for both projects that would undoubtedly be higher in the future.

This decision will place additional burdens on the heads of our
fund raising group to bridge the gap between available funds and
the amount that will be needed.

I urge all of our members who share a common interest in the
future of the Institute to contribute whatever you may wish for
the successful completion of our program. It is absolutely essen¬
tial that none of the endowment funds of the Institute he used
for this construction as we need all of our unrestricted income,
and then some, for the operation of the Institute. It is interesting
to note that our 1961-1962 operating budget was $64,400 with
a projected deficit of $4,400, and our 1966-1967 budget is
$89,700 with a deficit that should not exceed $1,900. Although
in five years our expenses have increased almost 40 percent, our
anticipated deficit is substantially lower.

Capital expenditures in industry are most commonly made to
increase productive capacity, or to reduce costs by more efficient
machinery and equipment. The purpose of these expenditures
is invariably to increase profits which will benefit both the stock-

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holder and employee. Service to the pubhc and not profit is the
Institute’s reason for existence. In providing this service we
should consider carefully the relationship between our museum
and houses on one hand and our library on the other. Although
we are performing a most important service in providing a better
understanding of the past by means of our material objects, we
must not in any way diminish the important tradition of research,
scholarship, and pubhcations that have been made possible by the
great resources of our library.

The routine work load of our staff has continued to increase
during the past year. The dislocation and confusion that will be
caused by our construction program will add new difficulties.
Although these hardships have been accepted cheerfully it is our
responsibihty to make certain that the difficulties are only tem¬
porary. We must face the reality of the need for additional staff
members. With our present level of activity it is virtually impos¬
sible for the Director and Staff to keep up with all the demands
upon their time.

Admittedly administration and pubhc relations are a significant
part of a Director’s job, but we must reduce this burden so that
he can find time for creative research and writing. This is as
important to an Historical Society Director as it is to a person in
academic life and we must not stifle scholarly contributions by a
myriad of details.

Possibly I have emphasized too strongly the problems that are
facing the Institute. We have made great progress, both tangible
and intangible, and will continue to do so. Our building program
is the fulfillment of our hopes and plans for many years. With
its completion the physical requirements of our main buildings
will be met for our hfetimes at least.

When all the chaos of construction has subsided we hope that
it will be possible to enlarge the garden and make a truly at¬
tractive area devoid of automobiles — but these are plans for an¬
other year.

The accomphshments of the past year are the result of the
efforts of many people to whom we should he most grateful. The
members of the Council have given unselfishly of their time and
resources. Our staff and army of almost 100 volunteers have per¬
formed miracles. Above all this galaxy is Dean Pales, whose

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ability and enthusiasm is an inspiration to us all. None of us will
soon forget the superb show of Essex County Furniture, but few
are probably aware of the hundreds of hours of research and work
that was required for the exhibition and catalogue.

The year ahead will be a challenge for all of us, but the com¬
pletion of our construction program will improve oiu: physical
assets immeasurably. We are reahzing the wishes of President
Rantoul who wrote in 1898 that the Institute craved the oppor¬
tunity to unfold its treasures, utihze its wealth and make available
its vast assets. Also after 37 years we are fulfilling the need for
an addition to our fibrary stacks which was considered absolutely
essential by President Alden P. White in 1929.

To be sure, we are living in a troubled and changing world,
but what assets of greater permanence and value can we find than
those possessed by the Institute. The preservation of these assets
was the reason for the founding of the Institute in 1821, and it
is our obhgation today. The completion of our improvements will
be a logical step in our development and abihty to meet our re-
sponsibihties. And so until a year from now I can only say that
utter confusion will take over, but that it will be well worth the
hardships and inconvenience.

Respectfully submitted,

Albert Goodhue

President

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR

The cultural explosion became stronger than ever last year,
the fallout at the Institute consisting of a 1 5 percent rise in over¬
all attendance to over 43,500, as well as a corresponding growth
of varied requests from a motion picture producer in Germany
working on witchcraft to a graduate student in British Columbia
who could not understand our refusal to send him over one-third
of our manuscript collection via interlibrary loan. The stafiE has
survived — and even flourished — and to each of them go my
deepest thanks for their accomplishments.

Activities have been varied. In January, Sinclair H. Hitchings
gave the 1966 Salem Lyceum lecture on early New England town
views and their value to historians. In addition to smaller ex¬
hibitions put on by the Library, a larger show, “Model Trains of
Yesteryear,” delighted old and young ahke at Christmastime; and
during the summer, a major exhibition, “Essex County Furniture:
Documented Treasures from Local Collections, 1660-1860,”
brought together over seventy examples of works of identifiable
local cabinetmakers.

This exhibition was recorded in a catalogue and special issue
of the Historical Collections, The Quarterly has continued to
probe the past, with articles on local subjects from Peach’s Point
to the Gold Coast and from Andover to Cape Town. Our early
trade and our early currency have been explored, and articles
have app>eared on Edmund Currier, John Glover, Thomas Fitch
Oliver, Timothy Pickering, and Joseph Story. A great deal of
work has been done on the fourth cumulative index to the Histor¬
ical Collections, and this needed volume will be completed later
in the year. Two more colored postcards of our Greenwood por¬
trait of Captain John Clarke and of the Pingree House parlor were
issued.

While the reports of the Curator and Librarian will deal with
the acquisitions of their own departments, one most important gift
was that of the Assembly House at 1 3 8 Federal Street, given by
Miss Mary Silver Smith as a memorial to her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Newton Smith. Much work has been done on this fine

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old house, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hunt have agreed to serve as
custodians, and we plan to open the house to the public later in
the year.

Maintenance work and improvement to the furnishings have
been carried out in all the houses. Generous gifts from members
of the Nichols family have enabled us not only to accomplish
many improvements in the house itself, but at long last to start
the rejuvenation of the back garden which leads to the once glor¬
ious North River. Major gifts from the Pingree heirs have insured
the preservation of Mclntire’s most glittering jewel, the Gardner-
Pingree House.

Not only has the stafE done more to keep up with the increased
tempo of interest and activity, but the Library stafE has done a
tremendous amount of planning in conjunction with the new
stack area. In addition to all this work, David Proper has spoken
to many special groups visiting the Library, as has Huldah Payson
to Museum visitors. Mrs. Payson has also spoken at the Manches¬
ter Historical Society, the Royall House, the Hingham Historical
Society, and to the North Shore Junior League. I have given
fourteen talks during the year, including one at the New Hamp¬
shire Historical Society and one at the triennial meeting of the
Order of the Cincinnati at Hamilton Hall. I have also continued
as adviser to the Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth and a foot-
weary member of the Salem Historic District Study Committee.

Our service is to the pubhc, and no one could serve better than
our volunteer house guides. Many new ones have joined us dur¬
ing the year; and, with the 1966 course having just ended, we
now have nearly a hundred active volunteer guides, a most
wondrous and numerous band. We could not survive without
them, as their 426 half days of service last summer proved, and
to them and our regular Library and Museum volunteers go our
deepest thanks. I would also like to thank the lenders to our
exhibitions, all the donors to the Essex Institute Fund, the Coun¬
cil, and everyone I have had to phone back for their generosity,
kindness and patience. I would like to thank W. Hammond
Bowden, Mrs. Bertram K. Little and Stephen PhilHps for their
time, energy, and counsel in planning for the new construction.
Above all I would like to thank Albert Goodhue for a devotion
and an abihty that goad and guide us gloriously.

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In these busy days of more visitors, greater sales, burgeoning
requests, heavier mail, and louder telephone bells, we are dehghted
that through this frantic veil of frenzy can be seen a desire on the
part of the public to know the true meaning of our past. They
are better educated each year, and the truth is engendering an
apj>eal that fancy and conjecture never had. In fact, at times I
think the public has completely outstripped us. When a letter
addressed to “The Ethical Institution Library, Salem, Mass.”
arrived from St. Petersburg, Florida, last February, it had httle
trouble finding its way to us.

Respectfully submitted.

Dean A. Fales, Jr.

Director

REPORT OF THE LIBRARY

During the course of a most active year in the library, signifi¬
cant acquisitions of late nineteenth century papers and corres¬
pondence of the Salem Waters family were made by bequest from
the estate of the late Wilham Crowninshield Waters. Through
Mr. U. Haskell Crocker, archives and historical papers of the
Manchester Yacht Club from 1859 to 1961 were added, and Miss
Harriet Rantoul placed with us manuscripts and papers of the
Rantoul family of Salem and Beverly. Salem High School made
available over a hundred and twenty-five issues of the school’s
literary magazine, The Advance, to help fill out our files of that
periodical. We also received The Folk Arts and Crafts of New
England from Daniel J. Foley and Priscilla S. Lord.

The largest gift of books received was the Hbrary of the Assem¬
bly House, given by Miss Mary Silver Smith and Mrs. Usher P.
Coolidge, a hundred and fifty volumes of which have been cata¬
logued in the fibrary. Mrs. Grace Haddock gave a Haverhill Fire
Club membership and rules book containing names and manu¬
script entries of members from the formation of their Club in
1768 through 1814 in memory of her husband, Henry Haddock
of the Lynn Fire Department, and his sister, Mrs. Josiah Gifford.

With the interest and advice of Mr. Stephen Phillips an im¬
portant linguistics study source, an eighteenth century manuscript
Chinese-Latin grammar on rice paper with Chinese characters
and Latin equivalents lettered by missionaries in Canton in 1722,
was added to the Ward China Library. Other noteworthy pur¬
chases include an Indian deed to Rumney Marsh, a part of Lynn,
dated April 9, 1685 and signed by important colonial authorities
and six Sagamore Indians, copies on microfilm of Ipswich town
and church records and a film copy of a manuscript book of ser¬
mons by Rev. Samuel Parris, some preached by him as minister
of the Salem Village church during the witchcraft hysteria.

An important manuscript adjutant’s record book of the Essex
Militia, 3rd regiment, covers the significant period 1793 to 1814
with important references to military activity in Essex County
during the War of 1812. Work of reference value to the
museum’s growing collections have also been purchased, a num-

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ber of valuable genealogical works given and books added by a
number of Essex County authors, including John T. Daggett,
John H. Fenton, Slater Brown, John Updike, Barbara Owen,
Laurence Dodge and Francis W. Cronan. Received through the
hbrary have heen 323 exchanges, 1,236 gifts and 499 purchases
for the collection, totaling 2,058 items.

Our activities have been many and varied. Extensive arrange¬
ment and cataloguing of the Waters family papers, Manchester
Yacht Club archives, 6 1 volumes of autograph albums and friend¬
ship books, as well as 150 writing books, class exercise, penman¬
ship and drawing books and several hundred Fourth of July ora¬
tions, is just about completed. The important broadside and Essex
County map collection was entirely checked over during the
summer, mended and arranged. We have continued the micro¬
filming of Salem newspapers and undertook reproduction responsi-
bihties of important holdings for the Navy Department’s Revolu¬
tionary War naval documents project, Ohio State University’s
centennial edition of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the
American Antiquarian Society’s American imprints program.
Research on vastly diversified subjects has been carried on by an
ever increasing number of scholars, graduate students and
genealogists. Some of these projects include the Whittier letters
in our Oak Knoll Collection, Jones Very by a researcher from
Paris, the Louisburg Expedition by Canadian Government re¬
searchers, and Timothy Pickering and his interest in promoting
agriculture. We have served 4,163 persons and circulated 242
books to members, and have entertained the North Shore Library
Club, student groups from New York City, and visitors from many
states and countries.

StafiE members attended meetings of the North Shore Library
Club and the Essex County Historical Council, and I was invited
to be present at the dedication of Bowdoin College’s new
Nathaniel Hawthorne-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Library at
Brunswick, Maine, in February.

As we continue in our work with uncatalogued and accumu¬
lated materials, the rediscovery of important items continues to
make of this a fascinating occupation. Recently an architectural
work bearing the signature of Joseph Mclntire, father of Salem’s
famed carver, an important Doolittle print, maps, architectural

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drawings and plans, and a broadside announcing the first voyage
of the steamboat Massachusetts from Salem in 1817, reappeared.

Loans of materials were made to the calligraphy exhibition at
the Baltimore Museum of Art and to the Wenham Historical
Association and Museum. Interhbrary loan requests were hon¬
ored from points as far apart as British Columbia and Texas
A. & M. University. The fibrary contributed to the Institute’s
railroad display, showed autograph and friendship books, items
relating to early Essex County pubfic and private hbraries, and
some of our more significant accessions at the last annual meeting.

Our staff members continue to turn out an amazing quality of
work, answer innumerable letters, phone calls and requests for
information of every kind from the maiden name of Emmanuel
Downing’s wife (she was a Winthrop) to the date when the
figures 1620 were carved on Plymouth Rock (1880). Mrs.
Charles A. Potter is beginning her twenty-second year with the
Institute; Miss Mary Ritchie and David Proper continue as full
time members of the Library staff. Mrs. Paul T. Martin continues
as part time Library Assistant, as does Mrs. Robert R. Daring who
joined the staff in January following the resignation of Donald
Nutting, an assistant for the past ten years. Timothy O’Brien
has been our fibrary page assisting in all departments and engaged
in special summer work and projects under Mrs. Potter’s direction
this past season. Most welcome and valuable work with the ex¬
tensive collection of mounted photographs has been contributed by
Miss Ruth Ropes. Others whose volunteer assistance is especially
appreciated include Mrs. Ralf P. Emerson, Miss Eleanor
Broadhead, Miss Mary Elizabeth Copeland, Andrew Heath, and
Richard Bolan who has helped sort and arrange the railroad col¬
lection. The fibrary also wishes to acknowledge the help and
support of the Institute administration, Mr. Pales and the Library
Committee and Council, especially as we prepare ourselves and
the collection for the expanded facilities we anticipate in the not-
too-distant future.

Respectfully submitted,

David R. Proper

Librarian

REPORT OF THE MUSEUM

This year has shown an increasing public use of our collections
for educational purposes. A greater emphasis is being placed on
individual learning, and local schools are sending more students
to study special projects. More weekend family groups and visitors
in the 30-50 years age bracket are enjoying the leisurely brows¬
ing which our gallery invites. By contrast, many school and club
groups request guidance from the museum staff, and there has
been a corresjwnding increase in the numbers of letters of inquiry
to the museum, and in requests for permission to publish photo¬
graphs of objects in our collections.

Among our scholarly and specialized visitors, the National
Council of Teachers of English, 400 members strong, found en¬
richment of their subject of course in the library displays of witch¬
craft and Hawthorne material, but equally in the eighteenth and
nineteenth century paintings, furnishings and accessories in our
museum. This group was rivaled in its enthusiasm only by the bus
load of fifty-six scientists, many of them from foreign countries,
who came with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Seminar on the
Application of Science in the Examination of Works of Art. The
Walpole Society, a management group from Sylvania, and stu¬
dents from Winterthur and Deerfield were among our other ap¬
preciative visitors, and sightseeing bus tours from as far away as
Oregon enjoyed our galleries. All are loud in their praises of our
pohshed furniture, shining silver, and gleaming brasses, so beau¬
tifully maintained by Mrs. Beechey and Mrs. Cook.

One unfortunate episode which marred this past year was the
theft of a portion of our coin collection. Rigid security measures
have been taken to prevent a recurrence in the future. We are
pleased to report that two-thirds of the stolen coins were recov¬
ered for us by the police, and that our Honorary Curator of Coins,
Lea S. Luquer, has already been able to replace nearly half of the
stolen coins which were not recovered.

As to new acquisitions, our Registrar, Mrs. Hassell, aided by
Miss Huntley, has catalogued 678 objects, of which 517 were
gifts or purchases, and the others loans or previously unaccessioned
objects. Among our welcome gifts, objects of local provenance

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include a mahogany Hepplewhite half-round commode of about
1800 from Frederick J. Bradlee; and from the Estate of William
C. Waters we received a delightful watercolor of his cottage in
Marblehead and a painted hatchment bearing his family’s coat of
arms. A set of eight mahogany Chippendale chairs, made in the
Salem area between 1760 and 1785, was the gift of Ward
Melville in memory of James Cameron Mackenzie. Two portrait
busts in marble have come to us, one from Dr. and Mrs. Maurice
Shulman representing General Benjamin Frankhn Butler, chiseled
in Rome about 1873 by the American sculptor, James Henry
Haseltine; the second, the gift of Miss Harriet C. Rantoul, por¬
trays none other than Napoleon I. It was formerly owned by the
artist Francis Alexander, whose daughter presented it to the
donor’s father, Robert S. Rantoul, while he was in Italy. A hand¬
some French porcelain plate from one of President Monroe’s
White House services was the gift of Mrs. Emmet Hall. Accord¬
ing to family tradition, the plate once belonged to Daniel Webster,
and through his second wife descended to the donor.

For our houses, a pair of delftware eighteenth century plates,
now in the Crowninshield-Bentley House, came as a gift from Miss
Eleanor SpofPord Perley, having come down to her from her great-
great-grandmother, Phoebe Perley Wood of Boxford. Also for
the Crowninshield-Bentley House we received a large gift of
kitchen equipment, jars, baskets, and hunting pieces, from Mr.
and Mrs. Willard C. Cousins, who have given so many of the
kitchen furnishings in that house. For our new Assembly House
on Federal Street, Miss Mary Silver Smith and Mrs. Usher P.
Coohdge have given and lent many interesting and appropriate
furnishings, including articles brought back from the Orient by
seafaring ancestors. An elaborately carved teakwood sofa, fire¬
place equipment, pictures, costumes, rugs, curtains and
chandehers, and many small objects of family interest will form a
nucleus for our furnishing of the house for exhibition.

Chief among the year’s purchases is an elaborate rococo silver
grace cup, made in London in 1747 by William Williams, and
engraved with the family crest and initials of John and Martha
(Derby) Prince of Salem, who were married in 1762. It was
through the Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr. Memorial Fund that we
were able to purchase this important piece, and also a pewter

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plate made in Boston between 1760 and 1775, which is thought
to have belonged to Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke. On the rim
are the crest of the Holyoke arms and an elaborate cypher of the
name of Holyoke. In paintings, we have purchased a view of
Marblehead from Fort Sewall in the nineteenth century; and in
furniture a mirror whose frame is of carved mahogany veneer with
gilt decoration, made by Joseph Crehore of Dorchester, brother of
Benjamin Crehore who made the case for our piano in the Pingree
House parlor.

A nineteenth century oil view of Plum Island painted by
Lorenzo Somerby was restored as the gift of Gustav D. Klimann,
and preservation work on the fresco by Come in our Pickman-
Derby-Brookhouse cupola has been completed, through a gift from
the Salem Marine Society. Mrs. H. T. Pulsifer has had re¬
upholstered in green damask the handsome Empire sofa in the
Peirce-Nichols House haU.

Our museum lent a number of objects to other institutions.
To The Newark Museum went a plaster bust portrait of Nathaniel
Hawthorne by Miss Louisa Lander of Salem, for the exhibition,
“Women Painters and Sculptors of America.” The Rhode Island
School of Design exhibited our eighteenth century silver grace
cup made by William Swan in their show, “300 Years of Ameri¬
can Silver.” We sent ceramics to the Wedgwood Club’s “Wedg¬
wood in New England, 1760 to 1800” at Pawtucket; and Gore
Place, for its special exhibition of paintings of children to 1830,
received as loans from us four children’s portraits. We also lent
to the Wenham Historical Association and Museum material for
one show celebrating Christmas, and for another celebrating “The
Miracle of the Needle.” During the visit to Salem of members of
the Order of the Cincinnati, the museum arranged for the
Pickering Foundation case material relating to General Lafayette’s
visits to Salem.

The Museum staff’s efforts towards the continued cataloguing
and arrangement of our collections have resulted in a few more
drops in the bucket. Mrs. Lalone, assisted by Miss Huntley, has
produced a truly orderly condition out of the former chaos of our
toy storage area. Mrs. Hassell has worked with the museum vol¬
unteers on our collection of early tools and hardware — all moving
towards that happy day when we shall be able to throw open what

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we now call our “storage area,” and rename it “study collection.”

Speaking of our museum volunteers, what would we do without
them? Sargent Bradlee, James R. Hammond, and Ross Whittier
have been joined by a fourth, Gilbert R. Payson, and in the course
of rearranging and cleaning our tool collection they are finding
some historic pieces which have been neglected for many years.
Mrs. James Cannon and Mrs. Frederic C. L. Mills have helped
us as we race to make our location cards coincide with what the
men are doing in rearranging the tools. In addition to our regular
volunteers. Miss Charlotte A. Hosmer, an Endicott Junior College
student, gave us a full month of volunteer work last winter as
part of her college program. Glen McDonald, a Salem High
School student, volunteered four days a week last summer, doing
everything from Civil War research on our uniforms to cleaning
tools and assisting our gardener, Mr. O’Neil. Two very junior
“good neighbors” from Peabody, Masters Steven Orloff and
Charles Stickney, cleaned up the fire engines in the Pingree stable
last summer and did a very thorough job under the supervision
of our ever-versatile Mr. Moore.

The Director has described the wonderful work done by our
house guides, and we in the museum join him in thanks to these
ladies for the many hours they have devoted as volunteers, for
their increasing skills and knowledge, and for their patience with
that weekly guide schedule prepared by the museum. And we add
our praises for their teachers of the guides’ course, those kindest
friends and sternest critics. Dean and Martha Lou Fales. We of
the museum staff also extend our warmest thanks to the members
of the Museum Committee, and to our Honorary Curators of arms,
clocks, coins and silver for their continued interest and help.

Respectfully submitted,

Huldah M. Payson

Curator

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

I take pleasure in submitting my tenth annual report as your
Treasurer, covering the fiscal year ending on March 31, 1966.

We again closed the year with an operating deficit of
$1,763.05, and by vote of the Council this has been charged to
the accumulated principal surplus, which now stands at the very
pleasant figure of $234,319.41, the result of fortunate capital
gains on sales made when it was a pleasure to read the stock
market quotations.

This deficit need not arouse any excitement or cause any mem¬
ber to ring in the burglar alarm, for it is largely due to the net
expense of the magnificent furniture show put on last summer
and which was so good and so well received as to more than justify
the tremendous amount of work and research on the part of Dean
Pales and his staff. This was a sample of what the Institute
exists for, and does, and will continue to do for many years to
come. It should make you proud that your membership in the
Institute and your dues and contributions have made such activity
possible.

The rest of the picture is very bright. The campaign for funds
to complete the renovation of the main entrance and the con¬
struction of a library addition has been going well. The beautiful
new auditorium, in which we are meeting tonight, the new read¬
ing room, and the beautification of the museum have been com¬
pleted, and fully paid for out of contributions received prior to
this fiscal year.

During this year, 175 members and friends have contributed
an additional $130,127.52 (including interest and dividends
which have been added to the Fund). These individual gifts
ranged in amounts from $1.00 to $50,426.25 and have consti¬
tuted this the largest and most successful campaign the Institute
has conducted during its long and useful life. An excellent com¬
mittee and a most worthy object have combined to produce an
outstanding job. Total contributions to date have reached the
sum of $362,690.85, contributed by 406 friends and members
since its inception in May of 1964.

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As you will know this evening, the die is cast and the contracts
have been signed for the entire renovation job to be done. We are
on the threshold of even greater accomplishments and of service
to be rendered in the years ahead.

The transactions of this year calhng for special comment were
as follows:

The Pingree House Endowment was increased to a total of
$90,814.87 by a gift of $6,000.00 from David Wheatland. An
agreement was made with the members of the Pingree family
(the donors of the Endowment) that, after setting aside 10%
of the income annually and adding it to the principal, and after
spending and reserving for future use whatever sum might be
deemed reasonably appropriate for the preservation of the house
and grounds as an interesting example of the architecture of the
early nineteenth century and the work of Samuel Mclntire, and
as a memorial to the Pingree family, the amount remaining un¬
expended each year may be added to the current unrestricted
income of the Institute. $3,000.00 of excess income was so used
this year.

The gift of $25,000.00 from Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr.,
for the purchase of museum objects, was mentioned by me last
year but it was not received until after the close of the fiscal year.

The income from the James Duncan Phillips Trust increased
to $17,373.01, one-half being available for our general opera¬
tions.

The largest individual gift this year to the Essex Institute Fund
was $50,426.25 from David Rockefeller, who expressed his
regret that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund could not contribute
to the Institute Fund but sent his own personal contribution
instead.

Another substantial gift of $15,225.00 was received from
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Shepard, Jr. to be added to the Fund.

Mr. Stephen Philhps has continued his generous program of
giving, by two lots of securities worth approximately $16,000.00,
which have been received since the close of the fiscal year.

We were again very fortunate in receiving a gift of the his¬
toric Assembly House on Federal Street from Miss Mary Silver
Smith. We have set it up on our books at $35,000.00, which
is an arbitrary value for bookkeeping purposes. At any rate, it is

REPORT OF THE TREASURER 267

a most welcome addition to our real estate holdings and we are
grateful to the generous donor.

Other gifts were received for specific purposes and particularly
to cover the cost of repairing and maintaining the various houses,
including $2,617.06 for the Assembly House and $750.00 for
the Peirce-Nichols house and garden; $361.00 was paid out as
directed; $80.00 was for general purposes; and $761.33 was for
specific purposes and is being so expended.

Other highlights of the year’s income were as follows :

Invested Funds $82,295.62, an increase of $8,600.00 over
last year.

Sales $5,977.83, an increase of $212.29 over last year.

Admissions $2,712.35, an increase of $454.65 over last year.

Dues $9,417.00, down $140.50 from last year.

Four Life Memberships at $250.00 each were taken out.

At the end of this report a Condensed Balance Sheet and Con¬
densed Income Account are shown as carried on our books at the
close of our year on March 31, 1966. The securities alone have
a market value of approximately one million dollars in excess of
the book value, and we have not included the priceless historical
gems and assets in our museum or the merchandise we carry for
sale. Without them, and we have never put a monetary value on
them, our assets could easily total between two and one-half and
three milhon dollars.

I acknowledge with appreciation the co-operation I have re¬
ceived from the President, Director, and members of the Finance
Committee, and esj>ecially from Bessom Harris and Kathryn
Burke of the Financial Department of the Institute, who have
proven invaluable.

The Treasurer’s books and accounts, the insurance pohcies
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, 1966

Cash

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

$ 35,114.69

267,789.33

557»459-o5

565,013.34

522,330.20

Total

FUNDS

Essex Institute Fund
Principal Invested Income Restricted
“Margaret Duncan Phillips Fund’’
Principal Invested Income Unrestricted
Principal and Income Unrestricted
Surplus Principal
Income Accounts

Total

345,472.96

367,606.51

21,460.55

333*003.96

612,908.79

234,319.41

32,934.43

Investments

Dues

Other Income

CONDENSED INCOME ACCOUNT

82,295.62

9,417.00

35,303.81

TOTAL INCOME
Deduct:

Miscellaneous Income Credited to

Restricted Income Accounts 15,428.68

Restricted Income from Investments 27,467.33

Add:

Restricted Income available for
General Operations

NET INCOME AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL PURPOSES

EXPENDITURES

Corporation 6,858.61

Salaries 63,540.40

Buildings and Grounds Expense 8,127.29

Publication 3,136.31

Houses 2,696.19

Miscellaneous 5,250.72

1,947*706.61

1,947,706.61

$127,016.43

42,896.01

84,120.42

3*726.05

87,846.47

89,609.52

INCOME OVEREXPENDED

($1,763.05)

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

269

FUNDS— ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND

March 31, 1966

Renovation and Development Fund 63,765.51

Transfer from Essex Institute
Preservation and Expansion

Fund 71.60

New Library Addition

Investment Income added to Fund

48,329.88

1,599-95

63,837.11

49,929.83

Essex Institute Fund

Donations received 123,732.98

Investment Income added

to Fund 4,794-59

120,396.34

128,527.57 248,923.91

Less : Disbursements

362,690.85

17,217.89

345,472.96

FUNDS— THE MARGARET DUNCAN PHILLIPS FUND
Income for Publication Dept, after
10% of income is added to Principal

Balance April i, 1965 21,277.35

Income 1965-1966 — $1,832.13 —

$1,648.93 to Publication Dept. —

10% or 183.20 to Principal 183.20

$21,460.55

FUNDS— PRINCIPAL INVESTED— INCOME RESTRICTED

March 31, 1966

PINGREE HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND

Gift of Anna W. Ordway, Stephen Phillips,

David P. Wheatland, Lucia P. Fulton,

Stephen Wheatland, Mary K. Wheatland and
Martha Ingraham 84,066.17

Additions to Fund-April i, 1965 to
March 31, 1966

David P. Wheatland 6,000.00

10% of Income added to

Principal 748.70 6,748.70 90,814.87

LIBRARY FUND

“Purchase and preservation of books
and manuscripts for the Library”

Gift of:

Martha G. Wheatland 10,800.00

Nancy D. Cole — “Ichabod Tucker Fund”

5,000.00

“Thomas Cole Fund” 5,000.00
Stephen W. Phillips 3,000.00

Alden Perley White 1,136.11

Wm. Gray Brooks 500.00

25,436.11

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WILLOUGHBY HERBERT STUART, JR. MEMORIAL FUND
"Acquisition of tangible objects — not
for maintenance of any kind”

Gift of Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr. 25,000.00

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.”

Gift of Lydia A. Very 24,450.03

JAMES A. EMMERTON

"Support of Historical Collections” 10,000.00

AUGUSTUS STORY

"Purchase, preservation and publication
of historical material, proceedings and

memoirs” 10,000.00

ELIZABETH C. WARD

"Purchase of books and pictures relating
to China and the Chinese” 9,000.00

CROWNINSHIELD-BENTLEY HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND
Established March 1964

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Bradlee 5*090.75

MARGARET NOWELL GRAHAM MEMORIAL LECTURE FUND
"Annual Lecture”

Gift of Mrs. Charles P. Howard 5,062.58

DR. WILLIAM MACK MEDICAL LIBRARY FUND

"Purchase of rare and expensive works of merit
in medicine and surgery” 5,000.00

GEORGE S. PARKER MEMORIAL LECTURE FUND

"Annual lecture” — Gift of The Parker Charitable
Foundation

HARRIET P. FOWLER

"Salary of an assistant librarian who shall have
charge of donations made by Miss Fowler”

SALEM LYCEUM

"Support of Free Lectures”

ELIZABETH R. VAUGHAN

"Care of Doll House”

HENRY W. BELKNAP

"Purchase of objects for Museum”

FREDERICK LAMSON

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

ESSEX COUNTY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
"Natural History or Horticulture”

ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY
"Historical Purposes”

CAROLINE R. DERBY

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

5,000.00

3,000.00

3,000.00

3,000.00

1,000.00

1,000.00

700.00

700.00

500.00

Funds invested in securities

$227,754.34

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

271

CROWNINSHIELD-BENTLEY HOUSE FUND

Established April 1959 66,856.67

PEIRCE-NICHOLS HOUSE MEMORIAL 38,325.38

PINGREE HOUSE

Gift of Anna P. Phillips, Richard Wheatland,
Stephen Wheatland, David P. Wheatland, Lucia P.
Fulton, Anna Ordway, Martha Ingraham, and Stephen
Phillips 30,000.00

JOHN WARD HOUSE FUND

Established May 1961 4,670.12

Funds invested in real estate 139,852.17

$367,606.51

FUNDS— PRINCIPAL INVESTED — INCOME UNRESTRICTED
Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute
March 31, 1966

General Endowment Funds

Benefactors:

George B. Farrington
Dr. Edward D. Lovejoy
Charles Davis
Jennie K. Hyde
David Pingree
Arthur W. West

Robert Peele and Elizabeth R. Peele
Harriet Rose Lee
Stephen Phillips
John Peabody Monks, M. D.

Margaret D. Phillips
Clement Stevens Houghton
Harold Peabody
William Gardner Barker
Charles Hastings Brown
William Agge

$2

5,129.86

0,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

2,120.00

2,000.00

2,000.00

1,000.00

1,000.00

500.00

500.00

400.00

200.00

100.00

Memorial Endowments

Benefactors: In Memory of:

Eleanor Hassam

HASSAM FUND

Miss Jenny Brooks

HENRY MASON BROOKS

Mrs. Stephen Willard Phillips

HON. STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND

Mrs. Ira Vaughan

(1824-1892
IRA VAUGHAN

(1864-1927

From his children

ROBERT SAMUEL RANTOUL
Mrs. Richard Spofford Russell

THOMAS FRANKLIN HUNT

(1814-1898)

FRANCES HENRY LEE

82,239.48

54,789.62

20,000.00

10,000.00

6,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

Miss Alice B. Willson

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ESSEX INSTITUTE

Benefactors: In Memory of:

George Swinnerton Parker

BRADSTREET PARKER
(1897-1918)
RICHARD PERKINS PARKER

(1900-1921)

Mrs. Morton Prince, formerly
Fanny Lithgow Payson

CLARA ENDICOTT PEABODY
(wife of Arthur Lithgow
Payson - 1828-1856)

William Crowninshield Endicott

ELLEN PEABODY
(wife of William Crowninshield
Endicott 1833-1927)

George Peabody Gardner, Mrs. Augustus Peabody Loring,
formerly Ellen Gardner; Mrs. George Howard Monks,
formerly Olga Eliza Gardner; J ohn Lowell Gardner

ELIZA ENDICOTT PEABODY
(wife of George Augustus
Gardner 1834-1876)

Miss Fanny Peabody Mason

FANNY PEABODY
(wife of William Powell
Mason 1840-1895)

James Duncan Phillips

STEPHEN H. PHILLIPS

Miss Mariam Shaw

MISS CLARA ENDICOTT SEARS

Mrs. William Sutton

WILLIAM SUTTON
(1800-1882)

Miss Caroline O. Emmerton, Mrs. David Mason Little, Mrs.
George Hodges Shattuck, Mr. David Kimball, Mrs.
Katherine Kimball Barker, Mrs. Talbot Aldrich, Mrs.
Rosamond de Laittre

JOHN BERTRAM

Charles Stuart Osgood

CHARLES STUART OSGOOD

Mrs. Arthur W. West

ARTHUR W. WEST

James V. Eagleston

CAPT. JOHN H. EAGLESTON

Joan U. Newhall

JOAN AND MILO NEWHALL
JAMES H. TURNER

Mrs. William Page Andrews

WILLIAM PAGE ANDREWS

Mrs. Franklin Green Balch, Mrs. Charles Pickering
Bowditch, Miss Cornelia Bowditch, Ingersoll Bow-
ditch, Mrs. Ernest Amory Codman

NATHANIEL BOWDITCH

1773-1838

Frances D. Higgins

MERIAN FISKE DONOGHUE

From his descendants

NATHANIEL FROTHINGHAM

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

4,1 50.00
3,000.00

2,000.00

1,600.00

1,8000.0

1,000.00

1,000.00

1,000.00

1,000.00

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273

Benefactors:

In Memory of:

Mrs. Alpheus Hyatt

ALPHEUS HYATT

1,000.00

Francis Welles Hunnewell

WILLARD SILSBEE PEELE

1,000.00

Mary C. White

DANIEL APPLETON WHITE

1,000.00

Manuscript Preservation

1,000.00

Life Membership Fund

20,000.00

Miscellaneous Memorial Funds

4,475.00

In Memory of:

HENRY TUCKER DALAND
MARY CROWNINSHIELD ELLIS
REV. JAMES POTTER FRANKS
THOMAS GARDNER
WILLIAM GRAY
RICHARD AND ELLEN URSULA

HARRINGTON
DR. JAMES J. HIGGINSON
JOSEPH AUGUSTUS PEABODY
HON. BENJAMIN PICKMAN
AUSTIN DERBY PICKMAN
DAVID N. POUSLAND
ROBERT RANTOUL
MARY ANN SEAVER
DR. J. FRANCIS TUCKERMAN
LUCY SALTONSTALL TUCKERMAN
WILLIAM CROWNINSHIELD WATERS
DANIEL APPLETON WHITE
EDMUND B. WILLSON
KATE TANNATT WOODS

$333,003.96

FUNDS— PRINCIPAL AND INCOME UNRESTRICTED

Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute
March 31, 1966

Benefactors:

George L. Ames

$122,224.65

William C. Endicott

50,000.00

Walter Scott Dickson

35,393-11

David Pingree

35,000.00

Assembly House Fund

35,000.00

Safford House Fund

33,947-57

Mary S. Rouse

32,830.64

Lucy W. Stickney

30,158.25

William B. Howes

25,000.00

William J. Cheever

20,000.00

Elizabeth L. Lathrop

15,457.50

Robert Osgood

1 5,000.00

Luis F. Emilio

12,201.95

Mary Eliza Gould

11,512.24

Neal Rantoul

10,300.00

Mary Endicott Carnegie

10,000.00

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Fanny P. Mason

10,000.00

Seth W. Morse

9,929.24

Elizabeth Wheatland

7,626.66

Elizabeth C. Ward

6,973.22

George Wilbur Hooper

5,000.00

Annie C. Johnson

5,000.00

Edward S. Morse

5,000.00

Grace M. Parker

5,000.00

Stephen Willard Phillips

5,000.00

Abel H. Proctor

5,000.00

Marion Felt Sargent

5,000,00

George Plummer Smith

Essex Institute Preservation

4,770.00

and Expansion Fund

4,331.37

Abbie C. West

4,075.00

Esther C. Mack

4,000.00

Mary S. Cleveland

3,828.14

Harriet C. McMullan

3,000.00

Lucy A. Lander

2,500.00

Dudley L. Pickman

2,500.00

Frank P. Fabens

2,000.00

J. Frederick Hussey

2,000.00

Abbey W. Ditmore

1,500.00

Charles L. Peirson

1,100.00

Francis B. C. Bradlee

1,000.00

Esther Files

1,000.00

Susan S. Kimball

1,000.00

Helen D. Lander

1,000.00

Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr.

1,000.00

Isabel S. Newcomb

1,000.00

Elizabeth S. Osgood

1,000.00

Mary T. Saunders

1,000.00

Annie G. Spinney

1,000.00

J. Henry Stickney

1,000.00

Grace A. Glover

870.55

Annie S. Symonds

778.70

Sarah A. Cheever

500.00

Annie F. King

500.00

Abigail O. and Mary E. Williams

500.00

Sally A. Bowen

500.00

William B. Osgood

100.00

$612,908.79

DONORS

275

DONORS TO THE ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND
Established May, 1964
Donors: 1964 - 1966

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Abbott

Lily S. Abbott

Nelson W. Aldrich

Mrs. Talbot Aldrich

Mrs. Frank Allen

Mr. and Mrs. Norman T. Allen

Moses Alpers

Dr. Doric Alviani

Mr. and Mrs. O. Kelley Anderson

Dorothy Annable

Walter W. Annable

Francis R. Appleton, Jr.

J. Sanger Attwill

Anna S. Babson
Mrs. Francis M. Babson
Mr. and Mrs. Channing Bacall, Jr.
Mrs. Caspar G. Bacon
Dr. and Mrs. William Benjamin
Bacon

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Baldwin
James H. Ballou
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Banes
B. Devereux Barker
Elizabeth G. Barker
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. M. Barton
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Benson
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bethell
Barbara B. Betts
Mrs. George K. Blair
Mrs. Fabens Boles
Mrs. Alice S. Bourgoin
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hammond
Bowden

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Bowers
Frederick J. Bradlee
Sargent Bradlee
Cyrus T. Brady, Jr.

Eleanor Broadhead
Elizabeth Broadhead
Mrs. Francis Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Brown
Mrs. Edwin P. Buchanan
Mrs. Harvey H. Bundy, Sr.
Edward K. and Edith Burbeck
(u/w)

Albert C. Burrage

Dr. and Walter S. Burrage

William J. Bursaw, Jr.

Mrs. Howes Burton
Mrs. Helen Glover Butler
Warren H. Butler
Lyman H. Butterfield

Lewis P. Cabot

Mrs. Ropes Cabot

The James H. Cannon Foundation

Mrs. Henry O. Carroll

Benjamin R. Chadwick

Samuel Chamberlain

Mr. and Mrs. F. Burnham

Chapman

Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Chase
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Chase
Mrs. A. Devereux Chesterton
Elizabeth H. Christen
Frederic C. Church Foundation
Mary A. Clapp
Mrs. Benjamin S. Clark
C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr.

Dr. DeWitt S. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Clark

Mrs. George K. Clement

Alice Clewes

Lloyd H. Coffin

Mrs. William Cogswell

Mrs. Ethel F. Coles

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Collier

Mrs. Edward W. Como

Gregory P. Connolly, II

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace C. Cook

J. Linzee Coolidge

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge

Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge

William A. Coolidge

Mrs. Charles H. P. Copeland

Katharine P. Copeland

Edward Hyde Cox

Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank Cram

Mr. and Mrs. U. Haskell Crocker

Florence B. Cruttenden

Franklin N. Cunningham

Margaret M. Curran

E. Mabel Curtis

Mary Curtis

Mrs. Richard E. Danielson

Dr. and Mrs. Stilman G. Davis, Jr.

Walter G. Davis

Mrs. Karl de Laittre

William Dennis

Mr. and Mrs. Howard G.

Dickinson
Mrs. Lewis Doane
Ernest S. Dodge
Mrs. Alfred F. Donovan

276

ESSEX INSTITUTE

Henry Lyons Donovan
Henry F. du Pont
Richard G. Durnin
Mrs. John Dyer

Charles Eaton, III
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ellis
Mrs. Ralf P. Emerson
Mrs. Robert Gilpin Ervin

Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. Eales
Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. Eales, Jr.
Mrs. Herbert G. Eales
Elizabeth R. Earnham
Ruth R. Earnham
Arthur D. Fay
Joseph E. Eellows, Jr.

Mrs. Cornelius C. Felton
Cornelius C. Felton, Jr.

Fidelity Management and
Research
Daniel J. Foley
Mrs. Reginald Foster
Mr. and Mrs. William W. K.
Freeman

Mr. and Mrs. Horace W. Frost
Mrs. John F. Fulton

Mrs. Preston B. Gandy
Mr. and Mrs. G. Peabody Gardner
Harrison Gardner
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gardner
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Garland
Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Gay
General Charitable Eund
Mrs. Benjamin Goodale
Albert Goodhue
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel M.
Goodhue

Mrs. Frederick S. Goodwin

Mrs. Roscoe W. Gould

Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. Gray

Hope Gray

Ward M. Gray

Philip J. Greven, Jr.

Mrs. Paul Gring
Mrs. S. Eliot Guild

Roger H. Hallowell
James R. Hammond
Roland B. Hammond
William C. Hammond, Jr.

Mary C. Harrington
Bessom S. Harris
Bartlett Harwood
Paul T. Haskell
Mrs. John Hassell
Francis W. Hatch
Francis W. Hatch, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Heath

Franklin A. Hebard

Mrs. William A. Henry

Mrs. Christian A. Herter

Alfred S. Hewins

F. L. Higginson

Hon. Robert W. Hill

Mrs. Ralph T. Hilton

Frederick W. Hixon

Daniel L. Hodgkins

Harold D. Hodgkinson

Mrs. Valentine Hollingsworth, Jr.

George C. Homans

Charlotte Hood

Gilbert H. Hood, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hopkins
Edward Everett Horton
Mrs. Esther Forbes Hoskins
William M. Houghton
Carrington Howard
Mrs. Charles P. Howard
Gertrude Farnham Howson
William D. Hoyt, Jr.

Eleanor S. Hunneman
Harold D. Hussey

Mrs. Eranc D. Ingraham
Mrs. E. du Pont Irving

Esther Jackson
Mrs. Frederic B. Jennings
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson,
III

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jones

Dr. Joseph Raster
Erick Kauders
Mrs. Gertrude B. Kent
Mrs. Alfred Kidder, II
Nelson M. Knowlton
Mrs. Stanley F. Koza
Mrs. David H. F. Kuell, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin W.
Labaree

Ellen B. Laight

Bradshaw Langmaid

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lawson

Mrs. Edgar L. Lefavour

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence B. Leonard

Mr. and Mrs. George Lewis, Jr.

Mrs. Thomas P. Lindsay

Mr. and Mrs. Bertram K. Little

Catherine G. Little

Elma Loines

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Longino
Erances Lord
Mrs. Philip H. Lord
Augustus P. Loring

DONORS

277

Caleb Loring, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. George G. Loring
Susan G. Loring

Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Lothrop
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Lovett
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Lunt
Mrs. Carlton Gardner Lutts
Mrs. Vincent Lyness

Patricia J. McArdle
Mrs. John L. McCrea
Mrs. Richard MacDougal
Hunter McKay

Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. McKean
Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. McKeen
Harold G. Macomber
Phyllis Magrane
Mr. and Mrs. James Mahoney
Mrs. Charles W. Mann, Jr.
Dorothea L. Mann
Mrs. Arthur A. Marsters
Mr. and Mrs. John Mayer
Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Melzar
E. Gertrude Merrill
Mrs. Anna M. Merrill
Walter M. Merrill
Mrs. Henry H. Meyer
Mrs. Sherman Miles
James J. Minot (The James Jack-
son and M. S. Minot Eamily
Foundation)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Montgomery
Henry S. Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Morison
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Morison
Mrs. Charles W. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Moses
E. Preble Motley
Robert T. Moulton, Jr.

Kenneth B. Murdock
Mrs. Albert C. Murray
Dr. Josephine L. Murray

Milo M. Naeve

Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel C. Nash
Milo and Joan Newhall (u/w)
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Newman
Mrs. Frank C. Nichols
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Nichols
Mrs. Rodman A. Nichols
Mrs. George Nichols
Dr. George Nichols, Jr.

Mrs. John T. Nightingale
Richard P. Northey

Esther Odell

Mrs. Raymond H. Odell

Andrew Oliver

Mrs. Samuel H. Ordway

Mrs. Edward H. Osgood
Mary E. Osgood
William B. Osgood
Mrs. Vernon Otten

Richard C. Paine

Mr. and Mrs. Osborn Palmer

Parker Charitable Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Parker

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. W. Parker

Winnifrid Parkhurst

Mrs. Edward G. Parrot

Mr. and Mrs. Roy K. Patch

Mrs. Arthur L. Pattee

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R. Payson

Robert E. Peabody

John W. Peirce

Mrs. Edward L. Peirson

Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Perkins, Jr.

Robert F. Perkins

Eleanor S. Perley

Theodora Perry

Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Philbrick
Mrs. Carroll Philbrook
Charlotte Palmer Phillips
Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Phillips
Stephen Phillips
William Phillips

Dr. and Mrs. Walter G. Phippen
George W. Pickering Co. (The
Horace E. Davenport Founda¬
tion)

John Pickering

Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman

Mrs. Edward M. Pickman

Richard S. Pierce

James S. G. Pigott

Mrs. Harold B. Pingree

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Pond

Mr. and Mrs. Olin V. Porter

Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Potter

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pratt

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver G. Pratt

Mrs. Roger Preston

Eric F. Pritzlaff

Mr. and Mrs. George N. Proctor,
III

Mrs. Thomas E. Proctor
Alfred P. Putnam
Mrs. George Putnam

Dr. George G. Raddin, Jr. and
John J. Raddin
Eleanor Rantoul
Harriet C. Rantoul
Mr. and Mrs. Perry T. Rathbone
Samuel E. Raymond
Mrs. Chandler Robbins, II
Mrs. Beverley R. Robinson

278

ESSEX INSTITUTE

William H. Robinson, Jr.

David Rockefeller

Bertha F. Rogers

Dr. and Mrs. Horatio Rogers

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Ropes

Ruth R. Ropes

Mrs. J. Clifford Ross

Mrs. Louis W. Rosskopf

Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Russell

Hon. Leverett Saltonstall

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Saltonstall

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sanders, Jr.

Mrs. Frank O. Sargent

Mr. and Mrs. Chester M. Sawtelle

Elizabeth B. Sawyer

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Schnurr

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Seamans

Mrs. Robert C. Seamans

Francis P. Sears

Richard D. Sears

Mrs. Ellery Sedgwick

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Sharf

Alfred 1. Shatswell

Dr. George Cheever Shattuck

Henry L. Shattuck

Mrs. John Glover Shaw

Miriam Shaw

Emily B. Shepard

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J.

Shepard, Jr.

George C. Shepard
Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Henry K.
Sherrill

Clifford K. Shipton

Dr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Shulman

Rollo G. Silver

Mrs. Gifford K. Simonds

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick M.

Slaughter
Mrs. Austin Smith
C. Fred Smith, Jr.

Gregory Smith

Harold T. N. Smith Memorial
Foundation
Marquis S. Smith
Peter Smith
Philip C. F. Smith
S. Abbot Smith
William D. Sohier
Joseph P. Spang, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard P.
Spaulding

Mrs. Harold W. Stable
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Steward
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Steward
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Steward,
Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Ezra F. Stevens

Mildred B. Stone

Mrs. Richard C. Storey

James J. Storrow

Henry S. Streeter

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Strong

Willoughby 1. Stuart

Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr.

Harry Sutton

Edward A. Taft

Charles S. Tapley

Mr. and Mrs. Lovell Thompson

Dr. and Mrs. Richard H.

Thompson
Alice Thorndike
Benjamin Tighe
Coles F. Tompkins, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Middleton Train
Bayard Tuckerman, Jr.

Howard M. Turner

King Upton

Mr. and Mrs. George Upton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Abbott P. Usher

S. Morton Vose

Ambrose Walker

Mrs. Bayard Warren

Mrs. Samuel D. Warren, Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Watson
Mrs. F. Carrington Weems
Mrs. Francis C. Welch
Mrs. Philip B. Weld
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Weld
Mrs. Raynor G. Wellington
Mrs. Henry O. Wendt
Nathaniel G. Wetherbee
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. West
Mr. and Mrs. David P. Wheatland
Stephen Wheatland
Charles A. Whipple
Ross Whittier

Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wilmerding
John Wildmerding
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wilmerding
John J. Wilson, Jr.

William H. Winship
Clara B. Winthrop
Mrs. Richard H. Wiswall
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wolcott
Alice Choate Woodbury
Stephen E. Woodbury
Mrs. John Wooldredge

Margaret J. Yerrinton
Mrs. Charles M. Young
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Young

$393»38o.4o

Total received May, 1964 to March 31, 1966

DONORS

279

DONORS TO THE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC HOUSES

Attwill, J. Sanger
Bradlee, Frederick J.

Canney, Charles G.

Chestnut Street Associates
Comstock, Mrs. W. Ogilvie
Cook, Mrs. George
Coolidge, Mrs. Usher P.

Cope, Thomas P.

Costello, Mrs. William
Cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Willard C.
Pales, Mr. and Mrs. Dean A., Jr.
Ferguson, Mrs. Arthur
FitzHugh, Lena Grayson
Furlong, Col. C. Wellington
Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell
Giles, Mrs. Paul D.

Goodhue, Albert
Guild, Mrs. S. Eliot
Hagar, Helen C.

HaU, Mrs. Emmet
Harris, Bessom S.

Harvard University, The
Houghton Library
Hills, Elmer M.

Hobbs, Mr. and Mrs. John E.
Holdich, Mrs. William E.

Holt, Mrs. Carlyle H.

Humphreys, Thomas, Ens., U.S.N.
Jenkins, Benjamin G.

Reach, Leon
Klimann, Gustav D.

Little, Catherine G.

Luquer, Lea S.

Mann, Mrs. Horace
Melville, Ward
Missud, Mrs. Fletcher
Morrill, Mrs. F. Gordon
Muscato, Harold
Nash, Susan R.

Ohl, Mrs. Edwin N.

Pauling, Mrs. Leon H.

Payson, Gilbert R.

Perkins, Mary Pauline
Perley, Eleanor Spofford
Proper, David R.

Rantoul, Harriet C.

Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Paul L.
Sanders, Mrs. Thomas
Scott, Mrs. Henry R.

Shattuck, Ruth
Shulman, Dr. and Mrs.

Maurice H.

Simpkins, Nathaniel Stone, HI

Smith, Mary Silver

Toomey, Mary Ann

Warren, Helen Thomas, Estate of

Waters, William C., Estate of

Wheatland family

White, Goddard M.

Williams, Arthur E.

Woodbury, Ruth

DONORS TO THE LIBRARY

Allen, Mrs. Walter
American Association for State
and Local History
Amesbury Public Library
Andover Newton Theological
School
Ball, Helen

Baltimore Museum of Art
Baron, Mrs. Pauline
Barre Publishing Company,
Barre, Mass.

Barrow Research Laboratory,

W. J.

Belisle, Paul E.

Beston, Elizabeth
Boston Organ Club
Boston University Press

Bostonian Society
Bowden, W. Hammond
Bowdoin College
Boxford, Town of
Boxford Historical Society
Bradlee, Sargent
Brevdngton, M. V.
Broadhead, Eleanor
Brown, F. Martin
Brown, Slater
Bullock, Kenneth C.
Burke, Kathryn
Caldwell, Dorothy W.
Carleton, Sarah
Carlstrom, Mrs. M. F.
Carter, Joseph C.
Chamberlain, Robert S.

28o

ESSEX INSTITUTE

Chapin, Mrs. E. Gardner
China Students’ Club
Clark, C. E. Frazer, Jr.

Cleworth Publishing Company,
Cos Cob, Conn.

Cobum, Hayward H.

CofiFey, Edward
Collins, Francis X.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Continental Insurance Companies
Coolidge, Mrs. Usher P.

Cornell University
Costello, Mrs. William
Cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Willard C.
Crawford, Calvin D.

Crawford, Frederick C.

Crowell, Thomas Y., publisher
Cmttenden, Florence
Cushing, John D.

Daggett, John T.

Dickinson High School Library, |
Dickinson, Texas
Edwards, Col. Charles H., Ill
Emerson, John Philip
Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P.

English, Philip F.

Essex Club

Pales, Mr. and Mrs. Dean A., Jr.
Farnham, Bertram C.

Farwell, Fred R.

Finch, Mrs. Frank C.

Finlay, Mrs. Christopher A.
Fitz-Hugh, Lena G.

Flanders, Mrs. Elizabeth B.

Foley, Daniel J.

French, Flora E.

Gauss, John W.

Gauss, John W., Jr.

General Society of Mayflower
Descendants
Getchell, Blanche
Giffen, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H.
Gifford, Mrs. Josiah
Godfrey, Mrs. Raymond B.
Goldsmith, A. F., and Company
Goodhue, Albert
Gore Place
Gould, Bartlett
Gray, Thomas E.

Haddock, Mrs. Henry, in memory
of Henry Haddock
Hagar, Helen
Hale, Nathan
Hall, Frank N.

Hall, G. K. and Company
Hammond, Roland B.

Hardy, H. Claude
Harrington, Frank L.

Harris, Bessom S.

Harvard University
Haskell, Paul T.

Hayes, Harold J.

Heath, Andrew
Heffernan’s Drug Store
Henry Francis du Pont

Winterthur Museum, The
Heritage Foundation, Deerfield,

IVTocc

Hills, Elmer M.

Historic Salem, Inc.

Hodgkinson, Harold D.

Holt, Mrs. Carlyle H.

Hooper, John B.

House of Seven Gables Settle¬
ment Association
Huiginn, Madeleine C.,
bequest of
Huttar, Charles A.

Imrie, William

Ionian and Popular Bank of Greece
Johns Hopkins University Press
Raster, Dr. Joseph
Lafayette College
Loring, Augustus P.

Lovett, Robert
Lynn Historical Society
Manchester Yacht Club
Marblehead, Town of
Marine Historical Association, Inc.,
Mystic, Conn.

Martin, Rev. and Mrs. Paul T.
Masconomet Regional School
District

Massachusetts Historical Society
Mayer, John

Meriden Gravure Company
Merrill, Mrs. Richard
Milwaukee Public Museum
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,
Utica, N. Y.

National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D. C.

Naumkeag Trust Company
Nelson, Truman
Newcomb and Gauss Co.

Newcomen Society

Ohio State University Press

O’Laughlin, Kathleen Merrick

Old Sturbridge Village

Oliver, Andrew

Owen, Barbara

Parker, Franklin

Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R.

Peabody, Robert E.

Peabody Museum of Salem
Peck, Richard E.

Perkins, Mary P.

DONORS

281

Parley, Eleanor
Pettengill, G. W.

Pettingill, Laura K.

Phillips, Stephen
Phippen, Dr. Walter G.

Pickard, John B.

Pierce, Richard D.

Potter, Arthur W.

Potter, Mrs. Charles A.

Proper, David R.

Ramsdell, S. C.

Randolph, Wassell
Rantoul, Harriet C.

Rawding, Mrs. Amelia
Rensselaer County Historical
Society

Rhode Island Hospital
Rhode Island School of Design
Ritchie, Mary
Ritchie, Mrs. R. P.

Roberson Memorial Center
Robinson, Mrs. L. B.

Roche, Joseph M.

Rogers, Mrs. William, Estate of
Irving Day
Ross, Mrs. J. W.

Salem Chamber of Commerce
Salem Council of Churches
Salem High School
Salem Jail and House of
Correction
Salem Laundry
Second Corps Cadets, Salem
Shattuck, Ruth
Silver, Rollo G.

Sizer, Theodore
Smith, Julian
Smith, Mary Silver

Smith, Peter

Society of the Cincinnati
South Church, Andover, Mass.
Spencer, Rae M.

Stearns, John
Swinney, H. J.

Syracuse University Library
Teller, Mrs. Graham P.

Thomas, M. Halsey
Toyama, Gunji

Turner, Mrs. Helen E. Eustice
U. S. Dept, of the Navy
University of North Carolina
Press

University of Texas Art Museum
University of Utah Press
Vallardi Edizioni Periodiche
Viking Press, Inc.

Virginia Quarterly Review
Ward, John W.

Warner, Frederick L.

Waters, Mrs. Frederick
Waters, William Crowninshield,
Estate of

Welch, Francis, Jr.

Wenham, Town of
Wenham Historical Association
and Museum

Wesleyan University Press
Westinghouse Broadcasting Com¬
pany

Whipple, Henry B.

Whittier, Ross
Woman’s Friend Society
Worcester Art Museum
Worthington Historical Society
Wright, Mr. and Mrs. William D.

NECROLOGY

Abbott, Lewis Benjamin
Barron, Col. William A.
Dellinger, Miss Ruth Cope
Foster, Mrs. James W.

Fowler, Roger A.

Haskell, Ira J.

Hitchcock, Capt. Russell Snow,
U.S.N.

Huiginn, Mrs. Eugene J. V.
Huntington, Dr. Henry Barrett
Jackson, Mrs. Oscar E.

Jackson, Wilham A.

Johnson, Thora E. M.

Kelleher, Mrs. John C.

Low, Mrs. Seth Fred
Marsters, Arthur A.

Motley, E. Preble
Northey, Mrs. Henry B.
Osgood, Mrs. Stuart
Pickering, Mrs. John
Rantoul, Eleanor
Rosskopf, Mrs. Louis W.
Tompkins, Coles F., Jr.

Torrey, Sara

Woodbury, Annie Endicott

, Date Elected

‘ V .

Date

Deceased

Nov.

12,

1935

June

28,

1965

Oct.

10,

1950

1964

Feb.

2,

1961

July

1965

May

8,

1945

Mar.

II,

1947

May

26,

1965

Mar.

8,

1949

Jan.

i7>

1966

May

10,

1949

July

1965

Mar.

2,

1925

May

8,

1965

Dec.

II,

1951

Oct.

1965

Oct.

9,

1945

Nov.

i5>

1965

Sep.

II,

1951

Oct.

18,

1964

Dec.

9,

1952

Apr.

i3»

1966

May

8,

1951

Feb.

i3>

1940

May

3>

1965

Apr.

10,

1956

Apr.

i3>

1965

Apr.

12,

1949

Oct.

I,

1965

July

7»

1933

Dec.

i3>

1965

May

8,

1945

Jan.

21,

1966

Jan.

II,

1955

July

2,

1965

Apr.

7y

1930

Sep.

1965

May

10,

1938

Apr.

5>

1965

Mar.

i3>

1945

Sep.

27>

1965

June

12,

1934

July

26,

1965

Jan.

14,

1941

May

3i»

1965

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