ESSEX INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 1968-1969 OFFICERS ALBERT GOODHUE President STEPHEN PHILLIPS CHARLES S. TAPLEY Vice-Presidents GILBERT R. PAYSON Treasurer PAUL T. HASKELL Secretary COUNCIL Term expires 1970: ALBERT GOODHUE KENNETH B. MURDOCK MRS. BERTRAM K. LITTLE CHARLES S. TAPLEY Term expires 1972: W. HAMMOND BOWDEN FREDERICK J. BRADLEE’^ AUGUSTUS P. LORING STEPHEN PHILLIPS ^Resigned, February 1969 Term expires 1971 : HAROLD D. HODGKINSON EDWARD C. JOHNSON, 3rd RICHARD S. WEST DAVID P. WHEATLAND Term expires 1973: J. SANGER ATTWILL ERNEST S. DODGE JAMES R. HAMMOND PAUL T. HASKELL 217 STANDING COMMITTEES LADIES Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon FINANCE Paul T. Haskell, Chairman Augustus P. Loring Harold G. Macomber Gilbert R. Payson Stephen Phillips Willoughby I. Stuart LIBRARY Kenneth B. Murdock, Chairman Benjamin W. Labaree W. Hammond Bowden Sargent Bradlee Ernest S. Dodge Dean A. Fales, Jr. Robert W. Lovett Stephen Phillips Charles S. Tapley David P. Wheatland MAINTENANCE James R. Hammond, Chairman Ray K. Moore Stephen J. Connolly, 3rd Ross Whittier J. Sanger Atwill, Chairman Moses Alters Sargent Bradlee Mrs. j. Harper Cannon Charles D. Childs James R. Hammond MUSEUM Harold D. Hodgkinson Edward C. Johnson, jrd Mrs. Bertram K. Little Dr. George Nichols, Jr. Richard S. West Ross Whittier PUBLICATIONS W. Hammond Bowden, Chairman Kenneth B. Murdock Ernest S. Dodge Stephen Phillips Dean A. Fales, Jr. Rollo G. Silver HONORARY CURATORS Honorary Curator of Silver Martha Gandy Fales Honorary Curator of Coins Lea S. Luquer Honorary Curator of Costumes John R. Burbidge 2i8 t'9 to STAFF David B. Little Director Managing Editor LIBRARY Mrs. Charles A. Potter Librarian Miss Mary M. Ritchie Cataloger Mrs. Arthur R. Norton Miss Susan P. Davis^ *Miss Kathryn R. Chisholm^ *Miss Judith Beston *Miss Victoria D. Connelly Library Assistants ’Charles J. Connelly, Jr, ’Stilman G. Davis, ’Timothy O’Brien^ ’Arthur J. Wheelers ’John H. WheelerC Library Pages MAINTENANCE Ray K. Moore Superintendent Wilfred J. Pelletier^ Assistant to Superintendent Mrs. Robert J. Beechey, Sr. Housekeeper ’Mrs. William Cook Assistant Housekeeper Edward J. Leonard Richard Kiely Constables * Part time 1. Resigned June 1969 . Resigned June 1969 . Resigned August 1968 4. Resigned May 1969 MUSEUM Mrs. Gilbert R. Payson Curator ’Mrs. John Hassell Registrar John Wright Assistant to the Curator ’Mrs. Emerson Hugh Lalone Miss Charlotte A. Hosmer ’Miss Mary Huntley Museum Assistants ’Mrs. Montgomery Merrill ’Mrs. Ray K. Moore ’Miss Helen Stevens ’David Gavenda House Guides ADMINISTRATION ’Mrs. Irving Duffy^ Office Manager Miss Kathryn Burke Assistant Treasurer ’Mrs. M. K. Cunningham Administrative Secretary ’Mrs. Hugh Nelson ’Mrs. Walter S. Ezmunt Administrative Assistants 5. Resigned April 1969 6. Appointed April 1969 7. Appointed January 1969 8. Appointed .Tune 1968 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Welcome to the 121st Annual Meeting of the Essex Institute. In a few minutes you will hear the reports of our Librarian, Treas¬ urer, Museum Curator, and Director, so that I will try to confine my remarks to more general matters concerning the Council and the overall operation and policies of the Institute. The Council, at its next meeting, will act reluctantly on three resignations submitted by men who have served the Council long and well. Mr. Gilbert Payson our Treasurer who is also President of the House of Seven Gables has discovered that the shifting of gears from one activity to another would wear out any transmis¬ sion. We are very sorry to lose his valuable services but are most grateful for his countless hours of work. Mr. Paul Haskell, who has served as head of our Finance Com¬ mittee, has felt it necessary to step down from this position but will remain on the Council. Thanks to him our Investment Com¬ mittee has acted promptly and wisely and we shall miss his un¬ canny ability to arrange important meetings promptly. Finally, we have received the resignation of Frederick J. Brad- lee who for compelhng personal reasons cannot continue to serve as Councilor. No President ever received more sound and vigorous advice than have I from Mr. Bradlee, His determination in seeing that decisions of the Council were acted on promptly provided much of the momentum which has carried the Institute ahead. As Co-chairman with Mr. Hodgkinson of our fund raising pro¬ gram, he extracted contributions with the masterful skill and tenacity of an oral surgeon. The costs of moving and restoring the Crowninshield-Bentley house were met by funds contributed by Mr. Bradlee and many others who gave substantial sums to make the restoration possible. We shall miss him on the board, but shall always be grateful for his energy, humor, enthusiasm and generosity. In the past year we have welcomed two new additions to the Council. Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon, a member ex officio, as Chair¬ man of the Ladies Committee, has already made the committee 220 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 22 1 an important and vital means of generating interest in the Institute in a multitude of ways. Mr. James R. Hammond has brought order out of chaos in the care of our buildings. Deferred maintenance is an expensive al¬ ternative to a carefully planned and supervised program of making small repairs before major surgery is required. In the past year we have had many heavy and necessary expenses to repair major structural deterioration. We are certain that our new program will eliminate these unpleasant and costly crises. As an adjunct to our maintenance program we have expanded our ADT burglar alarm system to cover the Vaughan doll collec¬ tion, the Ward and Crowninshield-Bentley houses. Also our por¬ trait and silver gallery now has an extremely sensitive system that literally would snare a wayward mouse in the toils of the police. Many people have made important contributions to the Insti¬ tute this year, and I would like to mention three particularly. The Parker Charitable Foundation through Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. M. Barton has added substantially to the George S. Parker Lecture Fund so that we may continue to have lecturers preeminent in their fields. In addition, we have received an anonymous gift of $20,000 to light the main museum gallery and all the display cases. This lighting is essential, and we can all be most grateful for this mag¬ nificent gift. Mr. Stephen Phillips has again made a large contribution, and we shall always be grateful for his generosity and dedicated interest in the Institute. This is the eighth time I have had the pleasure of addressing this gathering and it might be well to review briefly the develop¬ ments that have taken place during these eight years and to pro¬ ject some thoughts for the future. As for the changes, many are apparent to all, such as this room, the new front hall, McCarthy Gallery, offices, library stacks and the garden. Also there have been other vitally important changes that are less tangible. More than $800,000 has been generously given and be¬ queathed to the Institute, whieh together with the James Duncan Phillips Trust have made these physical improvements possible. 222 ESSEX INSTITUTE and enabled us to raise salaries (they are still too low) and to expand our staff to meet the ever-growing needs of scholars and visitors. We had an unprecedented operating deficit of $30,763 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1969 and we anticipate an operating loss of about $25,000 next year. These are disturbing figures and we are fortunate that contri¬ butions this year offset our deficit, and hopefully we can count on the assistance of our friends next year. We are not alone in facing this dilemma of rising operating costs and the inability to obtain capital gifts to provide necessary income. Our policy must reflect realistic forecasts and not wishful thinking but it is essential that we make no reductions in our staff and services as this would wipe out the progress we have made. Our improvements have solved many problems, but at the same time have created others. Careful and detailed planning has made possible effective use of space within our buildings. But unlike the universe and the brave men who at this moment are on their way to the moon, we must confine ourselves to a more mundane suborbital flight bounded by the Armory, Brown Street, Washing¬ ton Square and Essex Street. If in the future we have the funds to expand, it could only be on land at No. 3 and No. 5 Brown Street where a museum addi¬ tion and heating plant for our buildings might be constructed. However, within our relatively small area, we have unique treasures of every description. If we cannot enlarge our own uni¬ verse, we can broaden the horizons and knowledge of the thous¬ ands of people who visit us each year. We can perform this service only if the vast resources of our museum and library are preserved properly and made readily available to increasing numbers of people. A shining example of what can be done took place here this past weekend, when almost four hundred people enjoyed the showing of seventy two of our dresses covering the period 1837- 1901. It was a superb performance and Mr. John R. Burbidge, our Honorary Curator of Costumes, with Mrs. Burbidge, twelve models and countless wardrobe assistants, deserve our unbounded thanks for the tremendous amount of work that made this truly outstanding event possible. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 223 Our staff is continuing its difficult and dedicated work to bring order and relevance to our collections, whether it be the books and manuscripts under Mrs. Potter’s care or the countless museum objects entrusted to Mrs. Pay son. As I pointed out earlier our physical capacity is limited and we should not attempt to retain irrelevant objects of lesser quality for which we have neither space nor the means for proper preser¬ vation. It is our constant aim and obhgation to upgrade the quality of our collections, and our weeding-out process must not be at variance with this basic pohcy. Disposal of museum or library material is a sensitive and con¬ troversial procedure, and to me this past year often has been reminiscent of the times as a boy I skated in the old quarry by the Salem High School and could hear the thin ice cracking and bending on all sides. We have used care and I hope good judgement in our program but there have been differences of opinion, and it is important that these differences should be made known to me. I am confident that mistakes, which we recognize as inevitable, will be few and far outweighed by the advantages that will be gained. Our staff has considered the problem carefully. We are dealing with honor¬ able men, and I personally will accept all responsibility for actions of the Council or staff and earnestly request that any questions, reservations or criticism be directed to me personally, as it ulti¬ mately is my responsibility to see that the proper decisions are made. In conclusion, as another fiscal year at the Institute comes to an end, I have become increasingly aware of the enthusiasm of every¬ one connected with the Institute. We can never express our thanks adequately to volunteers, staff. Council and our many friends who have been so generous to the Institute. For me personally these have been eight rewarding and challeng¬ ing years. No one could have had greater pleasure than have I in my association with Dean Fales and now David Little. No insti¬ tution has ever had more dedicated men, who by their own ad¬ mission have found that the Institute has brought forth loyalties and a devotion that were completely unexpected. Some of this devotion is born of necessity as was seen at 10 o’clock Sunday night when our Director was removing the last vestiges of the 224 ESSEX INSTITUTE ladies dressing room that had taken over his ofl&ce for the past three days. I shudder to think how much work was needed yes¬ terday to remove the elaborate stage and to restore this room as we see it now. The Institute has had its problems, still has them, and will have more in the future. We have been successful in solving most of them. In the process we have created a more attractive and use¬ ful institution. With your continuing support we can look forward to the preservation of our past culture. This is a constant value which assumes more significance for many troubled people who are searching for meaning in the past that will give an under¬ standing of the present and guidance for the future. Respectfully submitted, Albert Goodhue President REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR May the Lord bless you one and all! You have given us $140,000 this year and the results are apparent all around us. We look different: from the new hghting in our museum galleries above us to the new signs outside our buildings, from the newly revealed beauty of Mclntire’s facade on the Asembly House to the tight roofs and new paint on the houses in the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Gardens. You have made all this possible and more. We will continue to express our thanks in deeds, not merely in words, believing that you will be more interested in helping us when the results of your generosity are so apparent. Endowment funds are vital, and we will work to increase them, but they lack glamor to many prospective donors. I do not believe it wise to attempt to live on the income of an endowment, no matter how big it is. I prefer to win the support of friends, new and old, by making the Institute interesting to them. The more we give, the more we will receive. This is the law of the marketplace. Institutions such as ours are not exempt from it. We spent $30,000 more than our endowment income last year and we received in gifts $140,000. I think there is a message here. In a world whose problems become larger and less soluble, we are fortunate to be small. We have our problems, but they are small enough to be encompassed by the mind. The humanities are in trouble today, ground between the millstones of social dis¬ order in our cities and the tax rates raised in an effort to remedy it. Newark, New Jersey, is threatened with the closing down of its public hbrary system and its museums. New York City’s tax- supported museums, hbraries, and zoos will be obliged to reduce their services. Even the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, its vital services supported entirely by private gifts, has been forced by the rising costs of labor on its new construction to raise its ad¬ mission fees and to reduce the number of its galleries open at one time. Only money can insure the full operation of these institutions, but money in quantities so vast that its availability is in doubt. 225 226 ESSEX INSTITUTE Yet what is a drop in the bucket for a big institution is a brimming cupful for us. We have all the space we can expect to support, even though we still want a carriage house and storage on Brown Street. We have splendid collections of authentic memorials re¬ lating to the civil history of Essex County. We need money to bring the size and quality of our staff up to a level commensurate with the size and quahty of our Essex County collections, whose security and availabihty are our chief reasons for existence. With¬ out such a staff our collections can be neither safe nor accessible, our functions reduced to those of a storage warehouse. Our staff has worked long and hard to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to us by our new construction. When I left the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, after thirty-four years of service, I thought that never again would I find such a dedicated and congenial group to work with. I have found its equal here. Perry Rathbone has led the way in raising museum salaries to match the increasing cost of Hving. We must follow his example if we are to attract and keep the kind of people our collections need. Our salary budget for the entire hbrary staff of four is less than the amount earned by a single union carpenter working the same number of hours as one of our hbrarians, for example, and carpenters are not the highest paid of the unions. Advertisements in the New York Times offer $7,500 to graduates of library schools without experience. We are bringing our minimum salary for full-time employees up to $4,000. Our endowment cannot support this figure, so our chief appeal to you this year will be for funds to maintain and increase it. Charles S. Osgood, Librarian of the Institute, stated our case in his annual report for the year 1893. “The first great need of the Institute is money,” he wrote, “ and the second is more money. Without this little can be done. With it the power of the Insti- tue for good can be extended almost indefinitely. It is with no selfish motives that we appeal for aid. The more assistance we have, the better the Institute can serve the community for whose benefit it was established and maintained.” The Ward and Pierce-Nichols houses have been designated National Historic Landmarks by the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior. This recognition underhnes the necessity for building an endowment fund for both houses. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 227 but especially for the Peirce-Nichols house, a masterpiece by the young Samuel Mclntire and one of the greatest wooden houses in America. We nearly lost that house by fire a few weeks ago and we have suffered severe losses in its barn. It was a big, beautiful, and expensive house when it was built in 1782. It still is. Mrs. Payson and Mrs. Potter will tell you about the work of their departments, their staffs, and their volunteers. All of our volunteers are important to us; some of them are essential. The work they do would not otherwise be done, and much of what they do we cannot do without. I will mention only those who work directly with me. James R. Hammond is the man responsible for our new look. As Chairman of the Maintenance Committee he has given our repair projects the close and expert attention they require. He has seen to it that we have received full value from the expenditure of your gifts. The Council has expressed its appreciation of his services by electing him to be one of them. During the winter months his able assistant Ross Whittier has been Clerk of the Works in his place. Daniel J. Foley was engaged to create the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Gardens, and this he is doing. This is not all he is doing, however. He has had a green thumb in every horticul¬ tural opportunity around the Institute for years, and words of wisdom for the Director, too. Mr. Foliage! May your leaves never wither! Mr. and Mrs. John R. Burbidge have spent nearly as much time in Safford House during the past year as the Director has, hard at work on the third floor front putting our costume collection in order and storing it in special cardboard boxes to protect it from further damage. Last week’s costume show gave some idea of the rehabihtation they have accomplished. Wilham M. Houghton is a skilled craftsman and an ingenious solver of construction problems. Working with our Superintendent Ray Moore, he has increased the productivity of our workshop. Gordon Smith designed our front hall map and the tickets which we sell for admission to our houses. Artist, designer, prac¬ titioner of the mysterious arts of modern printing, he has rescued me from many a dilemma. 228 ESSEX INSTITUTE Perhaps the most exciting development of the year is the crea¬ tion of a Ladies Committee to bring tidings of the Institute into every corner of Essex County. Under the leadership of Mrs. Wm. Benjamin Bacon, we will soon have representatives throughout the county who know the Institute, its services and its needs, and who will make it known in their neighborhoods. The Ladies Com¬ mittee has already handled the mailings and publicity for our costume show and the flowers for Senator SaltonstalFs lecture. How can we ever thank our volunteer guides for showing our houses aU summer long? Most of our visitors gain their entire impression of the Institute from these ladies. If our fan mail is any indication, the visitors’ impressions are very good indeed. We cast around in our minds for a way which would involve neither too much work or expense and came up with one of Colonial Wilhamsburg’s films in sound and color. Shown during a Novem¬ ber morning after conversation, coffee, and cakes, the film was such a success that we signed up for three more and showed each of them three mornings in a row, one film in January, one in Feb¬ ruary, and one in March. The November showing was for our guides alone, but every¬ one was invited to the winter series. The attendance averaged thirty guests at each performance, a comfortable number to gather around the silver coffee service lent us by James J. Storrow for such purposes. There are many small ways in which we can en¬ rich our ofiEerings without incurring too much work or expense. These film programs and the special exhibitions we are mounting in the cases acquired from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, are among them. Such spectaculars as the beautiful Victorian fashion show from which we are now recovering can be at most annual affairs. Our lecture programs have also been well received. Mrs. Pay- son gave her Story of Christmas again to an appreciative audience, her words and her illustrations expressing the spirit of Christmas through the genius of great artists of the past. We repaid Colonial Williamsburg for its films by sending Mrs. Payson to the Williams¬ burg Antiques Forum in February to lecture on “China from China.” She tried out her paper on us late in January as our Ly¬ ceum Lecture, and her audience found it good. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 229 Senator Leverett Saltonstall gave the annual Margaret Nowell Graham Memorial Lecture in April. The years have not dimmed his keen perception nor soured his faith in the basic decency of his fellow man. Massachusetts and the nation are the better for his long career of public service. Two parties held last spring were particularly pleasing to us. We invited the members of the Salem Fire and Police depart¬ ments to bring their famihes to the Institute on the last Sunday in May to see our houses and museum and to share with us the refreshments we had provided. It was a simple affair designed to show Salem people that we welcome them all. Our guests on that day have spread the word in every ward of the city. The Peirce-Nichols house became a home again for the evening of the Salem Assemblies when a debutante daughter of the family was honored by a dinner party there before the dance at Hamilton Hall. It is good for that part of the old house, now a museum, to be lived in from time to time so that it may replenish its supply of the human spirit and thus retain its ability to convince a visitor that this museum was, for over a century, a place where people lived. The task of reducing our holdings to a size we can preserve and support, and to those authentic memorials relating to the civil his¬ tory of Essex County, continues slowly and carefully on recom¬ mendations by the Director and by vote of the Council. When I reported this program to you last year we had received $24,000 in return for books that were useless to us. This year the total has passed the $50,000 mark and the end is not in sight. The Dupli¬ cate Book Fund is financing the binding and repair of books im¬ portant to us, the proper housing of our broadsides, the matting of our prints and drawings, the microfilming of the Salem Evening News, and other important library projects. Furniture is our most costly collection in terms of housing and maintenance. Mrs. Beechey and Mrs. Cook keep our furniture on display shining, but the furniture off exhibition is another story. Much of it was piled in {f3 Brown Street under conditions unac¬ ceptable to a museum. Matters came to a head when $5 Brown Street was purchased last fall and both houses demofished in December and January. Through the generosity of Moses Alpers we have been given the 230 ESSEX INSTITUTE use of Father Mathew Hall across the street for a furniture storage. The contents of #3 Brown Street, the furniture stored in the attics, cellars, and barns of the SafiPord, Pingree, and Peirce-Nichols houses have been gathered there for study. Some pieces have been sold, the proceeds forming the nucleus of a repair fund for the care of other museum objects. In closing, I wish to pay tribute to our President Albert Good- hue. A member of the Council since 1954 and President since 1961, he has led the way toward many of the changes that have increased the usefulness of the Institute. This auditorium gallery was created from a dead storage for books, the land at the corner of Essex Street and Washington Square was purchased, the Crown- inshield-Bentley house accepted as a gift and moved onto it; the Assembly House was accepted as a gift; the new fireproof book stack and the new connecting hnk between our hbrary and mu¬ seum were built; #5 Brown Street was purchased to round out our property and was torn down together with #3. The Institute is clearly not the same place it was ten short years ago. Most of these improvements were accompfished during the presidency of Mr. Goodhue and the directorship of Dean A. Fales, Jr. They were a good team. Not since the days of Henry Wheat- land has so much been done for the Institute. It is our hope to make full use of the new opportunities they have provided. With your continuing support, we will succeed. Respectfully submitted, David B. Little Director REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY The activities of the library during the past year were many and diversified. Old projects were completed and new ones were initiated. The most satisfying of the former was the completion of the work on the David Pingree papers given in 1962. These records relate to timber lands in Maine and consist of account books, receipts and correspondence from 1802 to 1950: 319 volumes, 310 boxes, 47 pamphlets and 5 packages. These are in addition to the collection that came to us many years ago con¬ taining letters and shipping papers from 1826 to 1879 which fill 188 boxes and 112 volumes plus a package of receipt books. This great collection covering the business activities of the Pingree family of Salem over a period of 148 years without interruption is of much consequence in any study of the commercial history of the New England area. All the customhouse records for Salem, Marblehead, Glouces¬ ter and Newburyport have been cleaned and are now shelved in the fireproof area. Under the guidance and direction of Mr. Roger Butterfield, distinguished author and historian, we have started a very import¬ ant attic project by giving our attention to the important periodi¬ cals that have been stored there for some time. We have moved the more valuable periodicals to temporary quarters in the Direc¬ tor’s ofi&ce and adjacent rooms. On their way, they have been cleaned and have stopped by the work bench of Mr. Sargent Brad- lee who, with his diligent and expert care, has treated the bindings v^dth leather dressing, not only giving them a handsome look but adding many years to their longevity. Mr. Bradlee has been a loyal volunteer. He is not only on the job regularly but his friend- hness and cheerful manner are bright spots in our hbrary routine. We have also temporarily transferred 4 1 volumes of Rees’s Cyclo¬ paedia with 6 volumes of plates, along with other equally im¬ portant encyclopedias and periodicals, to the first floor. One of our concentrations has been on the Gentleman's Magazine, started in London by Sylvanus Urban, which ran from 1731 to 1907. It was a periodical popular with the people in America. The first volume 231 232 ESSEX INSTITUTE lists the contents of this remarkable periodical as various weekly essays - controversial, humorous, political, religious, moral and satirical; poetry; concise relation of the most remarkable trans¬ actions and events - domestic and foreign; vital records; prices of goods and stocks; bankrupts declared; catalogue of books and pamphlets published; observations in gardening and a list of fairs. You can see by the foregoing why this periodical caught on and was favorite reading of the time. These we have shelved in the fireproof area because of their value: 87 volumes (up to 1800) of the existing set were already there; we added 98 extending the set to 1871; we are binding and filhng out the file to 1907. My hope and proposal is that the attic will be refurbished some¬ day. New ceilings, walls, flooring and, most important, lighting are needed. Then these periodicals can be reshelved in a good storage area without the threat of deterioration that they had for so many years. The lighting on the third floor of the Daland House is so poor that we have to get books with the aid of a flash¬ light. The attic and the third floor contain the only available space to shelve our material not in the category deserving of fire¬ proof space. Our broadside collection is unusually extensive and valuable. Last September we started a long overdue project to contribute to the preservation of these items by unfolding and dismounting them and transferring them to acid-free folders filed in new steel cabi¬ nets. This task is expected to be completed by the end of the summer. Miss Barbara Owen, who has a master s degree in musicology from Boston University and is an organist at the First Religious Society in Newburyport, and who, by profession, voices and tunes organs, has volunteered to help us classify and catalog our music collection. The music has been in storage in the annex since the beginning of our reconstruction period. Our present project necessitates bringing the collection to the basement of the Daland House where we can work on it. Already we have come across a manuscript sheet of music written by Henry Kemble Oliver, who was a teacher, treasurer and commissioner of labor for Massachu¬ setts, superintendent of cotton mills in Lawrence, and a musician. He was born in Beverly in 1800 and died in Salem in 1885. We also have his manuscript copy of Federal Street composed in 1832. REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 233 We know there is a great deal of his work in this collection and we plan to get it into one file. In 1942 the Essex Institute received from the estate of Jean Missud, the leader of the Salem Cadet Band, several of his own compositions and 6o diaries showing the engagements of his famous band from 1879 to 1939. This talented man was called the prince of musicians and was born in Nice, France, in 1852. He came to Salem in 1870 and died in Marblehead in 1941. These two collections of important Essex County musicians are our immediate concern. This summer, with the help of extra li¬ brary assistants, we expect to make great strides in cataloging these collections. Our manuscript readers numbered over 100 this past year. They came from all parts of the United States and from England, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, Kenya and Russia. Their sub- j'ects were varied: Mr. William Avery Baker, Curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum at M.I.T., worked on ship building and we made available to him from our uncatalogued section a manuscript volume on Salisbury, in which he found material not known before; Mrs. Sibyl Sandberg from Santa Bar¬ bara, California, researched material for a biography of John Bertram; Abdul M. H. Sheriff and his wife from Tanzania and the University of London studied the Salem ivory trade with Zanzibar, 1820-1875; from Kenya, Africa, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bowditch seeking material on the Bowditch family; Dirk Hoerder from the University of Berlin working on “Mob Action in Massachusetts, 1760 to 1780;” and David Maas from the National Archives gathering data on the ratification of the United States Constitution. There has been considerable interest and several studies in depth on Negro history. An outstanding piece of work was done by Miss Eleanor Broadhead of Salem entitled “A Brief History of the Negro in Salem” and prepared for the Salem Committee on Racial Understanding, 1969. From Gordon College in Wenham came five students who worked on a seminar in American history : American civilization focused on the colonial period and specifi¬ cally eighteenth-century Salem. We helped C. Milburn Keen, Jr., Associate Professor of History, to guide and direct his students and to encourage them to do a sufficiently high level of scholarly 234 ESSEX INSTITUTE research. We have been assured that their work here was a suc¬ cess. Miss Lorraine Coffey, a member of the faculty at Salem State College, and a Ph. D. candidate at Boston University, has been coming for over a year to do research for her doctoral disserta¬ tion “A Maritime History of Newburyport, Massachusetts, from Independence to the Civil War.” Edward Luckiewicz worked on a special project to obtain gradu¬ ation credit by cataloging our holdings of Salem, Beverly, Ipswich and Newburyport log books by saihng ports, ships, ports of call, destination and date. He did a commendable job and turned over a copy to us which is a helpful index for our users. Mr. Robert E. Moody, distinguished professor of American History at Boston University, is using our Saltonstall manuscripts in connection with his editing of the Saltonstall Papers for the Massachusetts Historical Society. His article, “Advice to Students on the Use of Special Collections” is helpful to the students who come here. Other subjects researched were: loyahsts, shipping, pohtics and Salem history. The most-used collections were those of Whit¬ tier, Hawthorne, George Peabody, Robert Rantoul, Rev. John Cleveland and the Derby and Curwen families. The recent trend toward demographic studies accomphshed through the use of a computer is apparent here, with three in- depth projects of this type currently being pursued by representa¬ tives from Notre Dame, Harvard and the State College at Geneseo, New York. Our correspondence has increased to such an extent, 750 letters last year, that we compiled two form letters, one for geneal¬ ogical and one for witchcraft queries. The influx of witchcraft queries expanded noticeably after an article on “Salem Still Casts a Spell of Witchery” by Eleanor Early appeared in the New York Times for February i6th. The author mentioned the Essex Insti¬ tute’s extensive collection of original records. Miss Early worked here for two days to gather material for her article. Our Xerox machine continues to be a wonderful time-saver and each day our readers express their gratitude to Miss Susan Davis, the hbrarian in charge, for this new service, even though they pay 25 cents a page. REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 235 Surprising as it may seem we have found time to catalog some items from our backlog. Often this is where our gems turn up, such as the Diary of Mary Endicott of Danvers, who was born in 1800 and died in 1877. Her diary covers the years from 1816 to 1871. Extracts from this diary were printed by the Salem Press in 1890 for the benefit of genealogists, covering the years from 1818 to 1843. There was no record of the location of the diary in 1890 when the excerpts were printed. Our records show that we purchased it in 1953 from Robert W. Lull. How it got into the hands of a book dealer is not known; however it remained in our uncatalogued material for sixteen years. The diary abounds in expressions of Mary Endicott’s Christian trust and sympathies. Another treasure, the worth of which was recently established, is a 44-page manuscript by Samuel Wilfiams of Waltham, entitled, "Observations and Conjectures on the Earthquakes of New Eng¬ land, 1653-1771,” which I catalogued in 1964. Although I was fascinated by it and knew it was valuable, it was not until the past summer that a scientist from the Weston Geophysical Re¬ search Laboratory documented it as one of the earhest compila¬ tions of earthquake information for this area. Needless to say, it is a rare manscript. Thousands of manscripts of Essex County interest which have been preserved through the years by the Essex Institute provide a tremendous nucleus for research of fife in this area. The value of our holdings would be greatly increased if the small local historical societies in Essex County would deposit with us any material of this sort which is now packed away and entirely inaccessible. Since Salem is and has been the county seat, the Essex Institute with its new fireproof accommodations welcomes and encourages the gift of such items. To my desk each week come fifty or more book company cata¬ logs. I select the pertinent material that interests us and when it is checked against our catalog we find that we have ninety per¬ cent of the items, indicating the scope of our collection. We continue our inter-library loans, 26 books having gone out the past year to other states and to Canada. We have handled by gifts, exchanges and subscriptions 1100 books and pamphlets. Members borrowed 104. Our attendance totaled 3,812 researchers and users of the library. 236 ESSEX INSTITUTE We added 1,162 items by purchase, exchange, and gifts: to the China Library 35 volumes, 29 of which were purchased through the Frederick Townsend Ward Memorial Fund; by gift from the estate of William Phillips (through Mr. Drayton Philhps), 5 items; by gift, 6 Essex County atlases from David P. Wheatland; Harold S. Walker continues his numerous gifts of railroad mater¬ ial; by gift from Ohio State University Libraries (Hawthorne Pro¬ ject), microfilm of the Salem Gazette, 1820-1840 (ii rolls in all); from Albert Goodhue, a microfilm, “The Peabody Story,” by John A. Wells; by gift from the American Antiquarian Society, 9 rolls of microfilm on Salem Town Records, 1800-1899; by purchase from the Boston Athenaeum, the Index of Obituaries in the Boston Newspapers, 1704-1800 (3 volumes); for the museum the game “Mahomet and Saladin,” published by W. & S. B. Ives of Salem in 1847; Salem News on microfilm, 1950-1958; by gift from the Salem Public Library, an English document on parchment dated August 1 1, 1777, the last will and testament of Joseph Jaques, the elder, of Reading, perhaps a relative of Henry Jaques who came to Newbury in 1648 from the same area; and Frank L. Mansur of Swampscott continues to send us his works on Essex County interests. Our significant manuscript additions are: by purchase, 12 ac¬ count books and papers of Samuel & Lemuel Fowler of Newbury, shipwright and blacksmith, covering the years 1735-1828; a Lucy Larcom letter dated 1859; from Allegheny College by photo copy, material on William Bentley not in our files; one box of receipted household bills of Aaron Wait dated in the 1820’s, which fitted nicely into our existing collection; by gift, from Oliver G. Pratt, his autobiography; an account of a trip to Japan by Ruth Moss Taylor of Los Angeles, Cafifornia, entitled “Far Out in the Far East;” from Mr. & Mrs. Jack W. Kuehn of Minnesota, two account books of the Bartlett family of Newbury, 1674-1746, cordwainers and blacksmiths. Our thanks go to Mr. & Mrs. Kermit Downs, who were influential in obtaining this gift for us. They visited our library, saw that the account books would fit into our collection and convinced the Kuehns to give them to us. The accession of these items increased the usefulness of our existing Bartlett ma¬ terial immensely. William Endicott of Manchester gave us 8 ac¬ count books belonging to his family. These are in the processing REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 237 stage. Hayden R. Shepley of Topsfield, editor of the North Shore Old Car Cluh publication, The Transmission, has given us much material on the club and on early autos made in Essex County. He brought to our attention the fact that Autodynamics Corpora¬ tion in Marblehead is doing a flourishing business making sports cars. Salem’s David Mason Little made the first automobile in Salem, a car with a Stanley engine and a beachwagon body about 1900. The three library exhibitions in the auditorium displayed items from our collection of miniatures, our collection of advertise¬ ments of mechanical devices of the nineteenth century on broad¬ sides, and our files of carriers’ New Year greetings of the eight¬ eenth and nineteenth centuries. We have attended the meetings of the Essex County library associations. As librarian I have joined the Zonta Club of Salem, a business and professional women’s service group. Last summer Miss Mary M. Ritchie, our cataloger, attended the New York State Historical Association seminars on American culture at Coopers- town. New York. Mrs. Arthur R. Norton, our librarian at the reference desk, and I have attended meetings concerned with urban renewal in Salem. Special thanks go to Mr. Ray Moore, our Superintendent, for employing his skill as a cabinetmaker to provide us with wall cases in which to display certain of our treasures. We also extend thanks to John Cowe, our friend and Salem News reporter, for the cover¬ age he has given the activities of the Essex Institute this past year. There have been no changes in the library staff. I appreciate the faithful and diligent assistance of each member. They all take part in keeping order out of chaos. Our goals would not be real¬ ized without their inidividual contributions. Our thanks go to the hbrary volunteers. Miss Ruth Ropes, Mr. Andrew Heath, Mr. Sargent Bradlee and Miss Barbara Owen. Without them and our part-time workers the projects outside the everyday scope of routine work would not come to fruition. Respectfully submitted, Dorothy M. Potter Librarian REPORT OF THE MUSEUM A year ago at Annual Meeting, the museum staff was joyously extolling the advantages of having, at last, offices and an acces¬ sioning room; but bitterly complaining about the inadequate light¬ ing in our museum galleries. Tonight, we reiterate our pleasure in our offices, and also strike out our complaints about the museum darkness; for new cove Hghting has been installed in the main gallery upstairs, and more modern apphances in the portrait room, replacing the former pendant bulbous globes. This has been ac¬ complished through the generosity of an anonymous donor. More detailed hghting is yet to come, in addition to this excellent gen¬ eral daylight effect achieved in both galleries. Here in our auditorium, too, our lighting is not only increased, but embellished by, the handsome pair of chandeliers which came from the house of Wilham Philhps in Beverly. They are the gifts of Henry S. Streeter and Richard S. West, and they have shone on many functions here this year. We have received several distinguished gifts of furniture. From Harry Sutton, Jr., in memory of Ehzabeth (Gardner) Ellis, came a fine Wilham-and-Mary chest-on-chest, exhibited in the hall out¬ side the auditorium. It is unusual in having burled maple veneer on the drawers, banded with curly maple. The Misses Eleanor S. and Margaret F. Upton gave a mahogany shelf clock bearing the label of Currier & Foster, who worked in Salem from 1831 to 1837. A carved chair in Enghsh Jacobean style was the gift of the Misses Ehzabeth R. and Margery Peabody. It was formerly owned by Francis Peabody at “The Lindens” in Danvers. A most welcome gift for our Peirce-Nichols House is an arm¬ chair with carving attributed to Samuel Mclntire, given by Mrs. Arthur C. Havhn in memory of J. Donaldson Nichols. This chair, another lent by Mrs. Havlin and a third one already in the Peirce- Nichols House, are three of a known set of ten originally in that house. Others of the set are in the Metropofitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Another gift associated with the early fur¬ nishings of the Peirce-Nichols House is a set of fifteen pieces of 238 REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 239 English cut glass with checkerboard design, given by Dr. George Nichols, Jr. For the Crowninshield-Bentley House, Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Cousins gave thirty-four objects, previously there as loans, including eighteenth-century furniture, wooden ware, metal implements, and glass bottles. We received from Miss Grace L. Eyrick two early dolls dressed as bride and groom, wearing their original costumes and dating between 1820 and 1840; and from the family of Mrs. Willoughby Herbert Stuart, Jr., an Autoperipatetikos (walking doll to you), dressed in a hoop skirt and patented in 1862, accompanied by her original box. A number of fine costumes have been added to our collection this year, including, from Mrs. John P. Barnes, a wedding mantle of white India muslin, worn in 1821 by Mary Pindar of Salem at her marriage to Jeremiah Page of Danvers. A group of dresses from Mrs. Sanford S. Clark included two made a hundred years later, in the 1920's, by the famous French designer, These were of special interest to Miss Janet Arnold, who was here from England to study costume construction. A specialist in the study of dress patterns. Miss Arnold took notes of the seaming on all types of costume, from some of our eighteenth-century corsets, to the 1920 dresses. The latter she found extremely subtle in design, and very rare, as many of the 1920 shifts are being bought up by today’s “hippies” and shortened to mini-length. We cannot mention our costume collection without expressing our ap¬ preciation of the wonderful work of renovation being done by our Honorary Curator of Costumes, John R. Burbidge, and Mrs. Bur- bidge. Gifts of particular local interest were mementos of Perley Put¬ nam, given by Mr. and Mrs. Perley H. Putnam; family objects from Miss Milhcent M. Nichols and Mrs. Thomas Gardner Rice; and from S. Prescott Fay, a sampler dated 1773, made by Su¬ sanna, daughter of the Salem patriot David Mason. Daniel Hender¬ son gave us four etchings and a watercolor by Frank W. Benson, whose work has hitherto been insufficiently represented in our collections. For these and for all the others of the 285 gifts to the Museum this year, we are most grateful. A bequest from Amidon Thomson left us a group of Chinese souvenirs which had belonged to General Frederick Townsend 240 ESSEX INSTITUTE Ward, in whose memory our China Library was created. From the Estate of Mary E. S. Beane of Salem we received an eigh¬ teenth-century silver porringer made by Jeffrey Lang, bearing the monogram of Russell and Susannah (Ellis) Trevett. The porrin¬ ger is known to have belonged to their son. Captain Samuel R. Trevett, who was commander of an artillery company at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Our most important purchase this year, acquired through the Willoughby Herbert Stuart, Jr., Memorial Fund, was the oil por¬ trait (exhibited in this room) showing Adoniram Judson. He was ordained in the Tabernacle Church of Salem in 1 8 1 2 as a mission¬ ary, spent many years in Burma as one of the first missionaries there, and translated the Bible into the Burmese language. The portrait was painted by Henry Cheever Pratt about 1845, when Judson returned to this country for a brief visit. This acquisition is fraught with local interest, for not only was the sitter ordained in Salem, but his first wife, Ann Hasseltine, was an Essex County girl from Bradford. Other purchases were a silhouette of Charles Treadwell, Jr., a lanky young man, born in Salem in 1822; and a delightful hand- colored lithograph of Pigeon Cove at Rockport in 1886. Our Hon¬ orary Curator of Coins, Lea S. Luquer, has effected the replace¬ ment through purchase of eighteen more of the coins stolen in 1965, leaving just a few more to be acquired. In carrying on the work of rehabilitation of our collections, we have had two of our oil paintings restored this year. They are the ever-popular “Trial of George Jacobs,” painted in the mid-nine¬ teenth century by T. H. Matteson; and the “Salem Panoramic View,” painted in 1895 Poole, as an advertisement for some emollient named “Witch Cream.” Both are exhibited in the McCarthy Gallery, and we have new postcards of both, as well as a new card of the delightful Annie Crowninshield Warren doll¬ house, built in Salem in 1862. In the Pingree House parlor, a Chippendale chair has been reupholstered, and a new flounce now embellishes the Shaw Room’s four-poster bed. Twenty-one pairs of curtains have been cleaned in our historic houses. Our museum collections are constantly used for reference by scholars. For example, the National Trust for Historic Preserva¬ tion, in its Decatur House in Washington, D.C., has furnished REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 241 Stephen Decatur’s bed with hangings based on measured drawings of the hangings on our own Curwen bed in the second period room in the Museum. In a recent article in the magazine An¬ tiques, our mezzotint portrait of John Hancock formed the basis of attribution for two mezzotint portraits of George and Martha Washington. Objects lent to other institutions were: witchcraft objects lent to the Danvers Historical Society, Napoleonic material to Marble¬ head Junior High School, and costumes for the fashion show held at St. Vasilios Church in Peabody. We lent early medical instru¬ ments to the Carroll Reece Museum in Johnson City, Tennessee, and a bust of William Hickling Prescott to the National Society of Colonial Dames in their Boston headquarters. Here in the auditorium we have held a series of changing ex¬ hibitions. Last fall we arranged a choice selection of Dutch delft- ware and Chinese porcelain, from the George Webb West Col¬ lection, lent by the West Family Trust. This beautiful and color¬ ful show, with explanatory labels, was truly educational, afford¬ ing chances for comparisons between pottery and porcelain, or European and Oriental elements of design. A second important exhibition, which is now back on view for the summer, was shown here in March. Arranged by John Wright of the museum staff, aided by our Superintendent, Ray K. Moore, it presents archi¬ tectural fragments of Essex County, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, accompanied by associated prints and drawings, all from the Institute’s collections. We have set up several exhibitions of recent accessions, several on children’s toys, and, at the appro¬ priate seasons, spring finery of the past, and presidential cam¬ paigns of the past. Although technically belonging in next year’s Annual Report, still fresh in our memories is the enchanting ex¬ hibition of paper dolls and paper games lent by Mrs. Rupert W. Jaques this last April. This exhibition, planned to coincide with the meeting here of the Doll Collectors of America, was a source of delight to adults and children afike. Our Museum attendance this year was approximately 34,800, 6000 over the previous year (when, however, we were open only for ten months due to the construction). The estimated visitors to our historic houses came to 750 in the Peirce-Nichols House, 1100 in the Crowninshield-Bentley House, 2500 in the Ward 242 ESSEX INSTITUTE House, and 3300 in the Pingree House. Museum visitors included 80 children’s groups and 40 adult groups, the latter including a bus load of 30 Boston State House Volunteers, who man the tour¬ ist information booths there. Special art study adult groups in¬ cluded 25 English and continental visitors, who came under the auspices of Sotheby’s auction house in London. Ten of our volun¬ teer Guides helped show them our houses, after which we served tea here in our auditorium. The Society of Architectural Histor¬ ians, meeting in Boston, came out to Salem and visited our Crown- inshield-Bentley, Peirce-Nichols, and Pingree houses. We have spoken of gifts to the Institute. To us in the museum, a very outstanding gift has been the time given by our volunteers. Forty volunteer guides showed our houses last summer, and we could not have kept the houses open regularly without them. Working with the museum stafiE, our volunteers Mrs. Harper Can¬ non and Ellery W. Giddings have demonstrated their versatility, and their real understanding of museum procedures, in our efiEorts at improving the organization and accessibility of our collections. Mrs. David B. Little, our Director’s wife, has guided in our houses, produced the world’s best “brownies” for the morning cojBEee served at our Guides’ Course, helped with exhibitions, and has a genius for seeing where help is needed, and then quietly going ahead and giving that help, in innumerable ways. On the StafiE, our House Guides, Mrs. Henry J. Burns in the Pierce-Nichols House, and Mrs. Montgomery Merrill and Mrs. Ray K. Moore in the Pingree House, have had an extremely busy year. Helen Stevens joined our stafiE as a summer guide, and Charlotte Hosmer did a masterly job of scheduling 40 guides in three difiEerent houses over a period of four months, and came out even. Our Registrar, Mrs. John Hassell, has accessioned a total of 3 1 5 objects, and processed them, with the assistance of Mary Huntley. Mrs. Emerson Lalone and John Wright have reorganized sections of the museum storage area, and with the help of our museum volunteers, we have tackled some previously unexplored categories, notably early mihtary equipment, and that fascinating beheve-it-or- not material, ambiguously classified as “relics.” We have an in¬ creasingly heavy influx of letters requesting information and ser¬ vice and increasing numbers of groups wanting gallery guidance. REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 243 The Curator has given lectures at Essex Institute, and at Colonial Williamsburg, in Topsfield for the Women’s Fellowship, and at the Middleton Historical Society. The museum stafE gave the lecture course for our guides, and we are working closely with our newly organized volunteer Ladies Committee. To the President and Council and to our Museum Committee, headed by J. Sanger Attwill, we on the museum staff give our thanks for their constant help and support during an extremely active year. We appreciate the warmly cooperative aid of the Li¬ brary, Office, and Maintenance staffs. It is a miracle to us how our Superintendent, Ray Moore, and his assistant, Wilfred Pelle¬ tier, and our Housekeepers, Mrs. Beechey and Mrs. Cook, are able to accomplish so much, with the building space so greatly en¬ larged. The old battle cry of “Keep your powder dry” is para¬ phrased at Essex Institute as “Keep the brasses shining!” Lastly, I want to express my own personal thanks to my col¬ leagues on the museum staff, for their thoughtful minds, their careful hands, their strong backs and their speedy feet, and par¬ ticularly for their patience and perseverence, versatility, indispen¬ sable sense of humor, and their wilhng hearts; and to our Director, whose foresight, imagination, and energy have produced such an active and creative program during this past year. Respectfully submitted, Huldah M. Payson Curator of the Museum REPORT OF THE TREASURER For the fiscal year ended March 31, 1969 our operating income was $106,900. and our operating expenses were $137,700., so we operated at a deficit of $30,800. as compared to a deficit of $7,500. the previous year. Sales of publications and photographs totalled $7,900. as against $9,600. the year before. The total market value of our combined invested funds and principal cash on March 31 was^ $2,3 58,000. as compared with $2,154,000. twelve months earlier. During the year we received a total of $143,000. in gifts, $75,000. of which was earmarked for speci¬ fic purposes. The balance is for the general uses of the Institute. The year-end balance sheet will be published in the Historical Collections as usual. The complete financial statements, with the auditor’s confirmatory report, are available in the Treasurer’s office to any member desiring to see them. The Treasurer’s office now functions in two different places; however, there is great question as to whether it could function at all without the dedicated people who run it. Mrs. Irving Duffy and Mrs. Hugh Nelson, in the downstairs office, keep track of memberships, photographs and publications, assisted at times by Mrs. Walter Ezmunt. Miss Kathryn Burke holds court in her new suite on the third floor where she dispenses wisdom, good cheer and accurate information to all comers. A word to apply suitably to these competent people is hard to find, and the simple word “grateful” is a monstrous understatement. I wish I could find a better one. Respectfully submitted, Gilbert R. Payson Treasurer 244 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 245 CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET March 31, 1969 Cash Savings Bank Deposits Bonds — Book Value Stocks — Book Value Real Estate Total $ 60,860.37 95,000.00 645,699.37 654,453.56 997,204.47 FUNDS Principal Invested Income Restricted “Margaret Duncan Phillips Fund” “George Swinnerton Parker Memorial Lecture Fund” Principal Invested Income Unrestricted Principal and Income Unrestricted Essex Institute Fund Surplus Principal Income Accounts 446,472.20 22,027.08 40,000.00 335>503.96 685,865.63 609,815.68 259,210.16 54,323.06 Total Investments Dues Other Income CONDENSED INCOME ACCOUNT 95,320.09 7,708.00 103,590.93 TOTAL INCOME Deduct : Miscellaneous Income Credited: Restricted Income Accounts 75,314.42 Restricted Income From Investments 28,375.63 Add: Restricted Income available for General Operations NET INGOME AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL PURPOSES EXPENDITURES Corporation Salaries Buildings and Grounds Publication Houses Miscellaneous 7,669.05 90,643.09 26,124.20 3,110.80 4,005.83 6,101.62 $2,453,217.77 $2,453,217.77 $206,619.02 103,690.05 102,928.97 3,962.47 106,891.44 137,654-59 INCOME OVEREXPENDED ($ 30,763.15) 246 ESSEX INSTITUTE FUNDS— PRINCIPAL INVESTED— INCOME RESTRICTED March 31, 1969 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 97»848.73 10% of Income added to Principal 882.93 98,731.66 PEIRCE-NICHOLS HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND Established September 1967 Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, Jane N. Page and Mrs. Clarence Hardenbergh 10,200.00 Additions to Fund — ^April i, 1968 to March 31, 1969 H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. 100.00 Rosanna Kumins 15.00 115.00 10,315.00 CROWNINSHIELD-BENTLEY HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND Established March 1964 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Bradlee and Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison 10,219.75 ASSEMBLY HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND Established December 1967 Gift of Stephen Phillips, Mrs. Karl deLaittre, Mr. and Mrs. Bertram K. Little, John deLaittre, Mrs. Rosamond deL. Ward, and Mrs. R. A. Wellington 14,003.12 Additions to Fund — April i, 1968 to March 31, 1969 Stephen Phillips 5,000.00 Bailey Aldrich 1 00.00 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Griffith 100.00 5,200.00 19,203.12 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 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 DUPLIGATE BOOK FUND Established 1968 “Acquisition and preservation of rare books, broadsides and other printed materials” 25,436.11 24,450.03 25,000.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 247 WILLOUGHBY HERBERT STUART, JR. MEMORIAL FUND “Acquisition of tangible objects — not for maintenance of any kind” Established 1965 Gift of Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr. Mrs. Stuart Pratt and Willoughby I. Stuart 25,809.78 GEORGE S. PARKER MEMORIAL LECTURE FUND Established September 1964 Gift of The Parker Charitable Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. M. Barton “Annual Lecture” 15,000.00 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 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 HARRIET P. FOWLER “Salary of an assistant librarian who shall have charge of donations made by Miss Fowler” 3,000.00 SALEM LYCEUM “Support of Free Lectures” 3,000.00 ELIZABETH R. VAUGHAN “Care of Doll House” 3,000.00 HENRY W. BELKNAP “Purchase of objects for Museum” 1,000.00 FREDERICK LAMSON “Purchase of objects for museum, illustrating early New England life and customs” 1,000.00 ESSEX COUNTY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY “Natural History or Horticulture” 700.00 ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY “Historical Purposes” 700.00 CAROLINE R. DERBY “Care of Derby Tomb, balance to be used for general purposes” Funds invested in securities 500.00 $306,128.03 248 ESSEX INSTITUTE CROWNINSHIELD-BENTLEY HOUSE FUND Established April 1959 67,348.67 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 140,344.17 ^ ■ $446,472.20 FUNDS— THE MARGARET DUNCAN PHILLIPS FUND Income for Publication Dept, after 10% of Income is added to Principal Balance, April i, 1968 21,829.44 Income 1968-1969 — $1,976.43 $1,778.79 to Publication Dept. — 10% or $197.64 to Principal 197.64 $22,027.08 FUNDS— THE GEORGE SWINNERTON PARKER MEMORIAL LECTURE FUND Established January 1969 “One or more lectures to be given annually Gift of the Parker Charitable Foundation $40,000.00 FUNDS— PRINCIPAL INVESTED — INCOME UNRESTRICTED Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute March 31, 1969 General Endowment Funds Benefactors: George B. Farrington $25,129.86 Dr. Edward D. Lovejoy 10,000.00 Charles Davis 5,000.00 Jennie K. Hyde 5,000.00 David Pingree 5,000.00 Arthur W. West 5,000.00 Robert Peele and Elizabeth R. Peele 2,120.00 Harriet Rose Lee 2,000.00 Stephen Phillips 2,000.00 John Peabody Monks, M. D. 1,000.00 Margaret D. Phillips 1,000.00 Clement Stevens Houghton 500.00 Harold Peabody 500.00 William Gardner Barker 400.00 Charles Hastings Brown 200.00 William Agge 100.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 249 Memorial Endowments Benefactors: In Memory of: Eleanor Hassam HASSAM FUND Miss Jenny Brooks HENRY MASON BROOKS Mrs. Stephen Willard Phillips HON. STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND (1824-1892) Mrs. Ira Vaughan IRA VAUGHAN (1864-1927) From his children ROBERT SAMUEL RANTOUL Mrs. Richard Spofford Russell THOMAS FRANKLIN HUNT (1814-1898) Miss Alice B. Willson FRANCES HENRY LEE 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 Peahody 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 82,239.48 54,789.62 20,000.00 10,000.00 6,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 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 50.00 250 ESSEX INSTITUTE Benefactors: In Memory of: 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 Mrs. Alpheus Hyatt Francis Welles Hunnewell Mary C. White NATHANIEL FROTHINGHAM ALPHEUS HYATT WILLARD SILSBEE PEELE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE Manuscript Preservation Life Membership Fund Miscellaneous Memorial Funds In Memory of: HENRY TUCKER DALAND MARY CROWNINSHIELD ELLIS REV. JAMES POTTER FRANKS THOMAS GARDNER WILLIAM GRAY RICHARD AND ELLEN U. HARRINGTON DR. JAMES J. HIGGINSON JOSEPH AUGUSTUS PEABODY AUSTIN DERBY PICKMAN HON. BENJAMIN 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 3,000.00 2,000.00 1,600.00 1,8000.0 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 22,500.00 4,475.00 $335,503-96 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 251 FUNDS— PRINCIPAL AND INCOME UNRESTRICTED Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute March 31, 1969 Benefactors: George L. Ames $122,224.65 William C. Endicott 50,000.00 Walter Scott Dickson 35»393-ii David Pingree 35,000.00 Assembly House Fund 35,000.00 SafiFord 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 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 4,770.00 Abbie C. West 4,075.00 Esther C. Mack 4,000.00 Ellen B. Laight 4,000.00 Mary S. Cleveland 3,828.14 Clara B. Winthrop 3,048.84 Harriet C. McMullan 3,000.00 Lucy A. Lander 2,500.00 Dudley L. Pickman 2,500.00 David P. Wheatland 2,000.00 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 Legacy u/w Sophie O. Nichols 1,000.00 Elizabeth S. Osgood 1,000.00 Mary T. Saunders 1,000.00 Annie G. Spinney 1,000.00 J. Henry Stickney 1,000.00 870.55 Grace A. Glover 252 ESSEX INSTITUTE Benefactors: Annie S. Symonds Sarah A. Cheever Annie F. King Abigail O. and Mary E. Williams Sally A. Bowen William B. Osgood Essex Institute contributions assigned to endowment Essex Institute Preservation and Expansion Fund FUNDS— PRINCIPAL AND INCOME UNRESTRICTED March 31, 1969 ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND Established May 1964 Balance, March 31, 1968 Additions to Fund — April i, 1968 to March 31, 1969 Stephen Phillips 9,370.19 Fidelity Foundation 6,000.00 McCarthy Family Foundation 5,000.00 Clara B. Winthrop 2,997.85 Mrs. Bertram K. Little 2,546.25 Mrs. Frank C. Nichols 1,061.05 Dr. Josephine Murray 1,039.22 Gertrude F. Howson 1,000.00 Caleb Loring, Jr. 1,000.00 Mrs. Sumner Pingree 1,000.00 Anonymous 23,433-06 Miscellaneous donations from 163 donors (under $1,000.00) totalling 10,127.36 ’^List of all donors to Essex Institute Fund since inception May 1964 listed else¬ where in this report. 778.70 500.00 500.00 500.00 500.00 100.00 67,000,00 239-37 $685,865.63 545,240.70 64,574-98 $609,815.68 DONORS 253 DONORS TO THE ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND Established May, 1964 Donors: 1964-1969 Abbott, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Abbott, Lily S. Abbott, Ralph F. Aldrich, Nelson W. Aldrich, Mrs. Talbot Allen, Mrs. Frank G. Allen, Mr. & Mrs. Norman T. Alpers, Moses Alviani, Dr. Doric Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. O. Kelley Annable, Dorothy Annable, Walter W. Appleton, Francis R., Jr. Attwill, J. Sanger Babson, Anna S. Babson, Mrs. Francis M. Bacall, Mr. & Mrs. Channing, Jr. Bacon, Mrs. Gaspar G. Bacon, Dr. & Mrs. William Benja¬ min Baldwin, Mr. & Mrs. James T, Ballou, James H. Banes, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Barker, B. Devereux Barker, Elizabeth G. Barton, Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. M. Batchelder, Clarke Gilman Batchelder, Edgar M. Batchelder, Mr. & Mrs. George L., Jr. Batchelder, Joseph M. Batchelder, Mrs. Roland B. Benson, Mr. & Mrs. George E. Benson, Mrs. Grace F. Bethell, Mr. & Mrs. John W. Betts, Barbara B. Billias, Dr. George A. Blair, Mrs. George K . Boles, Mrs. Fabens Boulger, James H., Jr. Bourgoin, Mrs. Alice S. Bowden, Mr. & Mrs. W. Ham¬ mond Bowers, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick E. Boyle, Daniel J. Boyton, Mrs. Charles T. Bradlee, Frederick J. Bradlee, Sargent Brady, Cyrus T., Jr. Brayton, Charlotte Broadhead, Eleanor Broadhead, Elizabeth Brooks, Mrs. Francis Brown, Mr. & Mrs. Chester A. Buchanan, Mrs. Edwin P. Buhler, Mrs. Yves Henry Bundy, Mrs. Harvey H., Sr. Burbeck, Edward K. and Edith (u/w) Burke, Kathryn Burrage, Albert C. Burrage, Dr. & Mrs. Walter S. Bursaw, William J., Jr. Burton, Mrs. Howes Butler, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Butler, Mrs. Helen Glover Butler, Warren H. Butterfield, Lyman H. Butterfield, Roger Byng, Mrs. Henry G. Cabot, Lewis P. Cabot, Mrs. Ropes Cannon, Mrs. J. Harper Cannon, The James H., Founda¬ tion Carroll, Mrs. Henry G. Chadwick, Benjamin R. Chamberlain, Samuel Chapman, Mr. & Mrs. F. Burn¬ ham Chapman, Hattie (u/w) Chase, Hazen P. Chase, Mr. & Mrs. Philip P. Chase, Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Chesterton, Mrs. A. Devereux Chisholm, Mrs. William Christen, Elizabeth H. Church, Frederic C., Foundation Clapp, Mary A. Clark, Mrs. Benjamin S. Clark, C. E. Frazer, Jr. Clark, Dr. DeWitt S. Clark, Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Clark, Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Clement, Mrs. George K. Clewes, Alice Coffin, Lloyd H. Cogswell, Mrs William Coles, Mrs. Ethel F. Collier, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Como, Mrs. Edward W. Connolly, Gregory P., II Cook, Mr. & Mrs. Wallace C. Coolidge, J. Linzee 254 ESSEX INSTITUTE Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge, William A. Coolidge, Mrs. T. Jefferson Copeland, Mrs. Charles H. P. Copeland, Katharine P. Cox, Edward Hyde Cram, Mr. & Mrs. G. Frank Crocker, Mr. & Mrs. U. Haskell Cruttenden, Florence B. Cunningham, Franklin N. Curran, Margaret M. Curtis, E. Mabel Curtis, Harriet Ciurtis, Mary Danielson, Mrs. Richard E. Daughters of the American Revo¬ lution, Col. Timothy Picker¬ ing Chapter Davis, Dr. & Mrs. Stilman G., Jr. Davis, Walter G. de Laittre, John de Laittre, Mrs. Karl De Moss, John E. Dennis, William Dickinson, Mr. & Mrs. Howard C. Dimond, Lee A. Doane, Mrs. Lewis Dodge, Ernest S. Doll Collectors of America, Inc. Donovan, Mrs. Alfred F. Donovan, Henry Lyons Driver, Mrs. Robert M. du Pont, Henry F. Durnin, Richard G. Dyer, Mrs. John Eastman, Mr. & Mrs. Roger K. Eaton, Charles, III Edgar, Mrs. Randolph Eilts, Hon. Hermann F. Ellis, Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P. Emilio, S. Gilbert Ervin, Mrs. Robert Gilpin Fales, Mr. & Mrs. Dean A. Fales, Mr. & Mrs. Dean A., Jr. Fales, Mrs. Herbert G. Famham, Elizabeth R. Famham, Ruth R. Fay, Arthur D. Fellows, Joseph E., Jr. Felton, Mrs Cornelius C. Felton, Cornelius C., Jr. Ferguson, Donald McHardy Fidelity Foundation Foley, Daniel J. Foster, Mrs. Reginald, Jr. Freeman, Mr. 8c Mrs. William W. K. Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Frederick Friend, Mrs. Walter A. Frost, Mr. 8c Mrs. Horace W. Fulton, Mrs. John F. Gandy, Mrs. Preston B. Gardner, Mr. 8c Mrs. G. Peabody Gardner, Harrison Gardner, Mr. 8c Mrs. John L. Garland, Mr. 8c Mrs. Joseph E. Gauss, Mr. 8c Mrs. John W., Jr. Gay, Mr. 8c Mrs. Ebenezer General Charitable Fund Gildrie, Mr. 8c Mrs. Richard P. Glover, George Goodale, Mrs. Benjamin Goodhue, Mr. 8c Mrs. Albert Goodhue, Mr. 8c Mrs. Nathaniel M. Goodspeed, George T. Goodwin, Mrs. Frederick S. Gould, Mrs. Roscoe W. Gray, Mr. 8c Mrs. Francis C. Gray, Hope Gray, Ward M. Green, Edwin T. Greven, Philip J., Jr. Gring, Mrs. Paul Guild, Mrs. S. Eliot Hallowell, Roger H. Hallowell, Mrs. Samuel H. Hammond, James R. Hammond, Mr. 8c Mrs. Roland B. Hammond, William C., Jr. Hardenbergh, Margaret Nichols Harper, Amelia M. Harrington, Mary C. Harris, Bessom S. Harrison, Mrs. Alfred C. Harwood, Bartlett Haskell, Paul T. Hassell, Mrs. John Hatch, Francis W. Hatch, Francis W., Jr. Heath, Mr. 8c Mrs. Andrew Hebard, Franklin A. Henry, Mrs. William A. Herter, Mrs. Christian A. Hewins, Alfred S. Higginson, F. L. Hill, Mr. 8c Mrs. Adams Hill, Hon. Robert W. Hilton, Mrs. Ralph T. Hixon, Frederick W. Hodgkins, Daniel L. DONORS 255 Hodgkinson, Harold D. Hollingsworth, Mrs. Valentine, Jr. Homans, George C. Hood, Charlotte Hood, Gilbert H., Jr. Hood, Harvey P. Hopkins, Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Horton, Edward Everett Hoskins, Mrs. Esther Forbes Houghton, William M. Howard, Carrington Howard, Mrs. Charles P. Howe, William M. Howes, Dr. Lloyd E. Howson, Gertrude Farnham Hoyt, William D., Jr. Hunneman, Eleanor S. Hussey, Harold D. Ingraham, Mrs. Franc D. Irving, Mrs. E. du Pont Jackson, Esther Jaques, Mrs. Rupert Ward Jennings, Mrs. Frederic B. Johnson, Edward C., II Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. Edward C., Ill Johnson, Richard Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Homer Raster, Dr. Joseph Kauders, Erick Kent, Mrs. Gertrude B. Kelly, Mrs. Susan E. Kidder, Mrs. Alfred, II Kittredge, Mrs. Wheaton, Jr. Knight, Russell W. Knowlton, Nelson M. Kolman, Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Koza, Mrs. Stanley F. Kuell, Mrs. David H. F., Jr. Labaree, Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin W. Laight, Ellen B. Langmaid, Bradshaw Larrabee, Helen Gardner Larrabee, Mr. & Mrs. Milton Lawson, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lee, Helene G. Lefavour, Mrs. Edgar L. Leonard, Mr. & Mrs. Laurence B. Levy, Babette M. Lewis, Mr. & Mrs. George, Jr. Lindsay, Mrs. Thomas P. Little, Mr. & Mrs. Bertram K. Little, Catherine G. Little, Mr. & Mrs. David B. Loines, Elma Longino, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lord, Frances Lord, Mr. & Mrs. Philip H. Loring, Augustus P. Loring, Mr. & Mrs. Caleb, Jr. Loring, Mr. & Mrs. George G. Loring, Susan G. Lothrop, Mr. & Mrs. Francis B. Lovett, Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Lowe, Samuel L., Jr. Lunt, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel B. Lutts, Mrs. Carlton Gardner Lynch, Marie L. Lyness, Mrs. Vincent Lynn Historical Society Lynn Unitarian Universalist Wo¬ men MacDougal, Mrs. Richard McArdle, Patricia J. McCarthy, John A., Foundation McCrea, Adm. & Mrs. John L. McKay, Hunter McKean, Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. McKeen, Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Macomber, Harold G. Magrane, Phyllis Mahoney, Mr. & Mrs. James Maitland, Douglas B. Manchester Historical Society Mann, Mrs. Charles W., Jr. Mann, Dorothea L. Marsters, Mrs. Arthur A. Mayer, Mr. & Mrs. John Melzar, Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Merrill, Mrs. Anna M. Merrill, E. Gertrude Merrill, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Merrill, Mrs. Walter M. Meyer, Mrs. Henry H. Miles, Mrs. Sherman Minot, James M. (The James Jack- son and M. S. Minot Family Foundation) Montgomery, Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Morgan, Henry S. Morison, Mr. & Mrs. George A. Morison, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Morris, Mrs. Charles W. Morss, Mr. & Mrs. Everett Moseley, Helen C. Moses, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred S. Motley, E. Preble Moulton, Robert T., Jr. Munroe, Mrs. William B. Murdock, Kenneth B. Murphy, Francis, Jr. Murray, Mrs. Albert C. 256 ESSEX INSTITUTE Murray, Dr. Josephine L. Naeve, Milo M. Nash, Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel C. Newhall, Charles B. Newhall, Milo & Joan (u/w) Newman, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Nichols, Mrs. Frank C. Nichols, Mrs. George Nichols, Dr. George, Jr. Nichols, Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Nichols, Mr. & Mrs. John T. G., Ill Nichols, Millicent M. Nichols, Mrs. Rodman A. Nightingale, Mrs. John T. Northey, Richard P. Nutting, Donald E. Nutting, Mrs. Ray E. Odell, Esther Odell, Mrs. Raymond H. Oliver, Andrew Ordway, Mrs. Samuel H. Osgood, Mrs. Edward H. Osgood, Mary E. Osgood, William B. Otten, Mrs. Vernon Page, Jane N. Paine, Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Palmer, Mr. & Mrs. Osborn Parker Charitable Foundation Parker, Mr. & Mrs. Francis T. Parker, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. W. Parkhurst, Winnifrid Parrot, Mrs. Edward G. Patch, Mr. & Mrs. Roy K. Pattee, Mrs. Arthur L. Payson, Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert R. Peabody, Robert E. Peirce, John W. Peirson, Mrs. Edward L. Perkins, Mr. & Mrs. Paul F., Jr. Perkins, Robert F. Perley, Eleanor S. Perry, Theodora Philbrick, Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Philbrook, Mrs. Carroll Phillips, Charlotte Palmer, Foun¬ dation Phillips, Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Phillips, James Duncan (u/w) Phillips, Stephen Phillips, William Phippen, Dr. & Mrs. Walter G. Pickering, George W. Co. (The Horace E. Davenport Founda¬ tion) Pickering, John Pickman, Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman, Mrs. Edward M. Pierce, Richard S. Pigott, James S. G. Pingree, Mrs. Harold B. Pingree, Mrs. Sumner Pond, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick P. Porter, Mr. & Mrs. Olin V. Potter, Mrs. Charles A. Potter, Mr. & Mrs. G. Glen Pratt, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pratt, Mr. & Mrs. Oliver G. Pratt, Mrs. Stuart Preston, Mrs. Roger Pritzlaff, Eric F. Proctor, Mr. & Mrs. George N., Ill Proctor, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph O. Proctor, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Pulsifer, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Putnam, Alfred P. Putnam, Mrs. George Raddin, Dr. George G., Jr., and John J. Rantoul, Eleanor Rantoul, Harriet C. Rathbone, Mr. & Mrs. Perry T. Raymond, Samuel E. Remon, Marion E. Reynolds, James R. Robbins, Mrs. Chandler, H Robinson, Mrs. Beverly R. Robinson, William H., Jr. Rockefeller, David Rogers, Bertha F. Rogers, Dr. & Mrs. Horatio Ropes, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence G. Ropes, Ruth R. Ross, Mr. & Mrs. J. Clifford Rosskopf, Mrs. Louis W. Russell, Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Sack Foundation Salem Marine Society Saltonstall, Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sanders, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas, Jr. Sargent, Mrs. Frank O. Sarkisian, Sarkis S. Sawtelle, Mr. & Mrs. Chester M. Sawyer, Elizabeth B. Schneider, Elizabeth Schnurr, Mr. & Mrs. William B. Scholle, Hardinge Seamans, Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Seamans, Mrs. Robert C. Sears, Francis P. Sears, Richard D. DONORS 257 Sedgwick, Mrs. Ellery Sharf, Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Shatswell, Alfred 1. Shattuck, Dr. George Cheever Shattuck, Henry L. Shaw, Mrs. John Glover Shaw, Miriam Shepard, Emily B. Shepard, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J., Jr- Shepard, George C. Sherrill, Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Henry K. Shipton, Clifford K. Shulman, Dr. & Mrs. Maurice H. Shuwall, Mrs. Paul D. Silver, Mr. & Mrs. Rollo G. Simonds, Mrs. Gifford K. Slaughter, Dr. & Mrs. Frederick M. Smith, Mrs. Austin Smith, C. Fred, Jr. Smith, Gregory Smith, Harold T. N., Memorial Foundation Smith, Marquis S. Smith, Mary Silver Smith, Peter Smith, Philip C. F. Smith, S. Abbot Sohier, William D. Spang, Joseph P., Jr. Spaulding, Mr. & Mrs. Howard P. Stable, Mrs. Harold W. Steward, Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Steward, Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert L. Steward, Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert L., Jr. Stevens, Mr. & Mrs. Ezra F. Stone, Mildred B. Storey, Mrs. Richard C. Storrow, James J. Streeter, Henry S. Strong, Mr. & Mrs. George H. Stuart, Willoughby I. Stuart, Mrs. Willoughby H., Jr. Sutton, Harry Taft, Edward A. Tapley, Charles S. Thompson, Mr. & Mrs. Lovell Thompson, Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Thorndike, Alice Tighe, Benjamin Tompkins, Coles F., Jr. Townsend, Gertrude Train, Mr. & Mrs. Middleton Tuckerman, Bayard, Jr. Turner, Howard M. Tyler, Ruth Upton, Mr. & Mrs. George, Jr. Upton, King Usher, Mr. & Mrs. Abbott P. Vose, S. Morton Walker, Ambrose Walker, Mrs. Thomas S. Wallace, William & Co. Walkley, Mrs. Edward I. Ward, Mrs. Rosamond de Laittre Warner, Mrs. Frederick L. Warren, Mrs. Bayard Warren, Mrs. Samuel D., Sr. Watson, Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Weems, Mrs. F. Carrington Welch, Mrs. Francis C. Weld, Mrs. Philip B. Weld, Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Wellington, Mrs. Raynor G. Wendt, Mrs. Henry O. West, Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Wetherbee, Nathaniel G. Wheatland, Mr. & Mrs. David P. Wheatland, Stephen Whipple, Charles A. White, Henry Wade Whittier, Ross Wilkins, Hon. Raymond S. Williams, Mr. & Mrs. Frank O. Williams, Mrs. Osgood Wilmerding, Mr. & Mrs. H. A. Wilmerding, John Wilmerding, Mr. & Mrs. John C. Wilson, John J., Jr. Winship, William H. Winthrop, Clara B. Wiswall, Mrs. Richard H. Wolcott, Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Woodbury, Alice Choate Woodbury, Stephen E. Wooldredge, Mrs. John Yerrinton, Margaret J. Young, Mrs. Charles M. Young, Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. 258 ESSEX INSTITUTE DONORS TO THE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC HOUSES Albert, Mrs. J. Roger Barnes, Mrs. John P. Beane, Mary E. S., Estate of Buddington, Mrs. John E. Burke, Mrs. George Clark, Mrs. Sanford S. Coolidge, Mrs. J. Randolph Cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Etheridge, Sarah H., Estate of Eyrick, Grace L. Fay, S. Prescott Foley, Daniel J. Giles, Mrs. Paul D. Goodhue, Albert Hagar, Helen G. Harris, Bessom Haskell, Paul T. Havlin, Mrs. Arthur G. Hayes, Mrs. Gharles Henderson, Daniel Jenkins, Benjamin G. Jones, Quinton O. Lothrop, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Luquer, Lea S. Montaine, Mrs. Herbert A. Nichols, Dr. George, Jr. Nichols, Millicent M. Oates, Mrs. Walter A. Parsons, Mrs. Ernst M. Pattee, Mrs. Arthur L. Payson, Gilbert R. Peabody, Elizabeth R. Peabody, Margery Pickering, Ralston F. Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. Perley H. Rice, Mrs. Thomas Gardner Seamans, Mrs. Peter B. Seamans, Mrs. Richard D. Sheridan, Mrs. William Sherry, Mrs. Lawrence Smith, Gordon State, Mrs. Allan F. Stevens, Ezra F. Streeter, Henry S. Stuart, Mrs. Willoughby H., Jr., Family of Sutton, Harry, Jr. Thomson, Amidon, Estate of Upton, Eleanor S. Upton, Margaret F. Walters, Mrs. Leonard L. Welch, Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. West, Richard S. Whitcher, Ruby E. Willey, Irene A. DONORS TO THE LIBRARY Adams, Frank P., Jr. Aldrich, Mrs. Mark Aldrich, Nelson W. American Antiquarian Society American Geographical Society American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. Andrews, Mrs. Paul E. Anonymous Archibald, Elizabeth Bagley, F. A. Beechey, Mrs. Robert J. Beadle, Walter J. Blahut, Robert Boston Public Library, Rare Book Dept. Bowden, William Hammond Bradford, Gershom Buddington, Mrs. John E. Carey, George G. Catalytic Construction Co. Chapellier Galleries Charles Scribner’s Sons Churchill Family in America College of William & Mary, Bote- tourte Bibliographical Society and Earl Gregg Swem Library Colonial Williamsburg DONORS Concord Free Public Library Connelly, Mrs. Charles J. Country Beautiful Foundation, Inc. Cousins, Willard C. Currier Gallery of Art Davis, Susan P. Dietz, A. Dirlam, H. Kenneth Dobbs, Paul A. Donnell, Robert P. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Douglas, Percy, Estate of Driscoll, Donald Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Early, Eleanor Ellsworth, Lucius F. Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P. Endicott, William, II Essex County Engineer's Office Fales, Mr. & Mrs. Dean A., Jr. Foley, Daniel J. Foss, Mrs. Marjorie B. Frost, Chester E. Gavenda, David T. Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Inc. Goddard, Frederick H. Goodhue, Albert Goodspeed’s Book Shop Gordon College, Winn Library Gould, Bartlett Grace Church in Salem Greene, W. B. Hagar, Helen C. Hale House Hall, G. K., & Co. Hardy Family Association of Amer¬ ica, Inc. Harris, Bessom S. Henderson, Mary Henry, Josephine DeNancrede Heustis, Mrs. Ruth T. Hill, Ruth Huntington, Lester W. Hussey, Harold D. Jaques, Mrs. Rupert W. Jewett, Everett D. Johnson Reprint Corporation Kilbom, Raymond H. Kuell, Mrs. David H. F. Lalone, Mrs. Emerson H. Leavitt, Thomas W. Lincoln, Leo L. Little, Mr. & Mrs. David B. Loveless, Richard W. Luckiewicz, Edward, Jr. Lundquist, Mrs. Edwin 259 Macdonald, Mrs. Frederic A., Jr. Mansur, Frank L. Marcus, Mrs. Virginia A. Marine Historical Society Martin, Mrs. Margaret M. Mason, Mrs. Eugene Waterman Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth McIntosh, Walter H. Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Moody, Robert E. Moore, Mrs. George A. National Archives and Records Services National Gallery of Art Naumkeag Trust Company New Hampshire Historical Society Newcomb & Gauss Co. Newcomen Society Nichols, Mrs. Alice Burt Nirenstein's National Realty Map Co. Norton, Mrs. Arthur R. Ohio State University Libraries, Hawthorne Projects Osgood, Herbert T. Owen, Barbara J. Parga, Ramon Parker, Franklin Parsons, Mrs. Ernest M. Payson, Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert R. Peabody Museum Perley, Eleanor S. Peter, Mrs. J. G. Pettingell, John M. Pettingell, Laura K. Philbric, Mrs. Charles, Estate of, thru courtesy of Mrs. Harry A. Noble Philbrick, Mr. & Mrs. John H. Philbrook, Mrs. C. F. Phillips, William, Estate of Poor, Roger A. Potter, Mrs. Charles A. Pratt, Oliver Goodell President’s Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty Pride, Mrs. Earl B. Princeton University Archives Proper, David R. Pulsifer, Mrs. Frank Raddin, George Gates, Jr. Rantoul, Harriet C. Reardon, Mrs. Robert W. Revolutionary War Bicentennial Commission Rice, Mrs. Thomas G. 26o ESSEX INSTITUTE Ritchie, Mary M. Ritchie, Mrs. Rebecca P. RockweU, Thomas Salem Chamber of Commerce Salem Historic District Study Com¬ mittee Scanlon, Lawrence E. Second Congregational Church, Beverly Sedgwick Historical Society Shepley, Hayden R. Sherry, Mrs. La\yrence Snow, Edward R. Spear, Mrs. Grace W. Speck, Mrs. J. State Historical Society of Wis¬ consin State of New York, Joint Legisla¬ tive Committee on Transpor¬ tation State University of New York at Albany, Graduate School of Public Affairs Stensrud, Mrs. Clarence Stevens, Alden Stevens, Ezra F. Swasey, John Moriarty Syracuse University Library Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. Taylor, Mrs. Vaughn Tgettis, Nicholas C. Trustees of Reservations Tyler, Ruth U. S. Navy Dept. Vinovskis, Maris Walker, Harold S. Watkins, Mrs. Charles Hadley Webb, Mrs. Anne Holliday Wheatland, David P. Wheeler, Joseph L. Williams, Mrs. Douglas Williams, Mrs. Osgood Worcester Art Museum Library Zollo, Richard P. DONORS 261 DONORS TO SPECIAL PROJECTS Aldrich, Bailey Aldrich, Mrs. Talbot Alpers, Moses Anonymous Angelakis, Miss Katherine Anglin, Mrs. Ray E. Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. M. Belleau Metal Works Benson, Mrs. G. E. Bowden, W. Hammond Bradlee, Frederick J. Bradlee, Sargent Butterfield, Roger Conant, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Conlin, Arthur Creighton Family Foundation Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cruttenden, Miss Florence B. Danielson, Mrs. R. E. Davisson, William S. de Laittre, John de Laittre, Mrs. Karl Donovan, Mrs. Alfred F. Endicott, Mr. and Mrs. William, II Foley, Daniel J. Goo^ue, Albert Greenberg, Mrs. Mike Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hammond, James R. Harrison, Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison, Mrs. John Ward Hodgkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Horton, Edward Everett Johnson, Edward C., II, Fund Kagin, Paul Koza, Mrs. Stanley Kumins, Miss Rosanne Ladies Committee of the Essex Institute Lamoine Foundation Little, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Lothrop, Mrs. Francis Luquer, Lea S. McMuUan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dale Moore, Mrs. Ray K. Moses, Mrs. Alfred S. Nichols, Mrs. George Nichols, H. Gilman, Jr. Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R. Phillips, Stephen Pierce, Mrs. John S. Rathbone, Perry T. Rogers, Dr. and Mrs. Horatio Rogers, Fred Rose, Mrs. Reginald P. Sawyer, Miss Elizabeth B. Smith, Miss Mary Silver Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Storrow, James J. Tapley, Charles S. Townsend, Miss Gertrude Warren, Mrs. Bayard Weld, Mrs. Philip B. West, Richard S. Wheatland, David P. Williams, Mrs. Osgood Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert P. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Young, Mrs. Charles M. NECROLOGY 1968 - 1969 Babson, Miss Anna Sanborn Babson, Mrs. Francis Morrill Batchelder, William Osgood Bates, William H. Bethell, Mrs. John W. Blake, Maurice Cary Brewer, Mrs. Robert E. Cabot, Mrs. Samuel Chesterton, A. Devereux Clark, DeWitt Scoville, M. D. du Pont, Henry F. Etheridge, Miss Sarah H. Fales, Dean A. Gardner, Mrs. Alfred Hamann, Charles Emory Hepburn, Andrew H. Hill, Adams Sherman Knowlton, Nelson Morrill Mann, Miss Dorothea Laurance Munroe, Mrs, William B. Newton, Dorr E. Osgood, Stuart Philbric, Mrs. Charles M. Remon, Miss Marion E. Rohinson, Mr. John Ross, Mrs. Thorvald S. Sargent, Fred Carroll Sargent, Winthrop Scholle, Hardinge Seamans, Robert Channing Stone, Miss Mildred Browning Stuart, Mrs. Willoughby Herbert, Jr. Stuart, Mrs. Willoughby I. Tassinari, Miss Mary Madelena Taylor, David Foster Winthrop, Miss Clara Bowdoin Date Elected Date Deceased Sept. 10, 1957 1968 Sept. 1949 June i7> 1968 Mar. 1930 1968 Sept. 12, 1950 June 22, 1969 Oct. 21, 1958 1968 June I, 1961 1969 Nov. 8, 1955 Mar. 6, 1969 Eehi i3> 1945 Jan. 1969 Sept. II, 1962 May i5> 1969 July i7> 1922 July 7> 1968 Apr. 1965 Apr. i4> 1969 June 12, 1945 Aug. 22, 1968 Jan. 7> i960 Mar. 3> 1969 June I, 1961 1969 Feb. 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