ESSEX INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 1969-1970 OFFICERS ALBERT GOODHUE President STEPHEN PHILLIPS CHARLES S. TAPLEY Vice-Presidents EDWARD H. OSGOOD Treasurer PAUL T. HASKELL Secretary COUNCIL 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 Term expires 1972: W. HAMMOND BOWDEN AUGUSTUS P. LORING STEPHEN PHILLIPS Term exp ires 1974: ALBERT GOODHUE KENNETH B. MURDOCK MRS. BERTRAM K. LITTLE CHARLES S. TAPLEY STANDING COMMITTEES LADIES Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon FINANCE Stephen Phillips, Chairman Augustus P. Loring John de Laittre Harold G. Macomber Paul T. Haskell Willoughby I. Stuart LIBRARY Kenneth B. Murdock, Chairman Benjamin W. Labaree W. Hammond Bowden Robert W. Lovett Sargent Bradlee Stephen Phillips Dean A. Fales, Jr. 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 Alpers Sargent Bradlee Mrs. J. Harper Cannon Charles D. Childs James R. Hammond MUSEUM Harold D. Hodgkinson Edward C. Johnson, 3RD Mrs. Bertram K. Little Dr. George Nichols, Jr. William B. Osgood Richard S. West ss 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 192 STAFF David B. Little Director Managing Editor LIBRARY Mrs. Charles A. Potter Librarian Miss Mary M. Ritchie Cataloger Mrs. Arthur R. Norton *Miss Judith Beston t *Miss Victoria D. Connelly Library Assistants f * Charles J. Connelly, Jr. * John H. Wheeler 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 G. Leonard Richard Kiely Constables * Part-time t Temporary staff 1. Re-appointed January 1970. 2. Resigned August 1969. MUSEUM *Mrs. Gilbert R. Payson Curator *Mrs. John Hassell Registrar Robert Egleston1 John Wright Assistants to the Curator *Mrs. Emerson Hugh Lalone Miss Charlotte Hosmer2 *Miss Mary Huntley t *Miss Peggy Badenhausen f *Mrs. J. David Mills t *Miss Charlotte Ballou Museum Assistants *Mrs. Montgomery Merrill *Mrs. Ray K. Moore t *Mrs. Elaine Ryan f *Miss Helen Stevens t * David Gavenda f * Scott Bozek f * Scott Merrill House Guides ADMINISTRATION Miss Kathryn Burke Assistant Treasurer Mrs. M. K. Cunningham Administrative Secretary *Mrs. Irving Duffy Office Manager *Mrs. Hugh Nelson Administrative Assistant 193 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT This is the ninth year that I have had the pleasure of present¬ ing my report as President of the Council, and as I read my remarks of prior years I find that there is a redundancy of com¬ ment that pervades all of my previous efforts. Hopefully your memories are short and my report will have more interest than warmed-over fish chowder. There is however one new note, both resonant and unique, that called this meeting to order. I, of course, refer to the Paul Revere bell that arrived today as a gift from the Trustees of the Salem Public Library. It is of particular interest to us as it was ordered by Dr. William Bentley for the East Church on May 20, 1801, and he notes in his diary that it weighed 892 pounds, without a stock or tongue. Five years later, Bentley, with his usual acidulous candor apparently had misgivings about the bell as he wrote that “Mr. Revere has not yet learnt to give a sweetness and clearness to the tones of his bells. He has no ear and perhaps knows nothing of the laws of sound. His excess of copper to ensure the strength of his bells depreciates their value and what is saved in interest is lost in reputation.” After hearing it ring this evening I think Dr. Bentley was unduly harsh in his comments and we are de¬ lighted to have both the bell and the weather vane from his church. The weather vane is hung on the back wall of this room. However, my report should be confined to the more serious affairs of the Council. It is with the greatest sorrow that we record the death of Mr. Frederick J. Bradlee on April 28th. He was a member of the Council from i960 until 1969. No councillor in recent years has contributed more in enthusiasm or hard work, and his gifts to the Institute were substantial. The $66,000 required to move and restore the Crowninshield-Bentley house was raised almost entirely by his efforts alone. He also gave generously to start an endowment fund for the house. I am hopeful that we may receive gifts in his memory to increase the endowment to an adequate amount. As one of the chairmen of our fund-raising drive he had an extraordinary ability to extract money from people for the Insti- 194 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 195 tute. We shall sorely miss his energy and good cheer, and we shall be ever grateful for his many years of fruitful work for the Institute. We have been most fortunate in that Mr. Edward H. Osgood has become Treasurer, following the resignation of Mr. Gilbert Payson, who served us so well for three years. As Vice President of the Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston, Mr. Osgood brings a competence that is sorely needed during a period of financial un¬ certainty. For many years the easy way to cover operating deficits was to siphon off a relatively small amount of capital gains in our secur¬ ities. However, that happy state of affairs has changed in two im¬ portant respects. The first, of course, is the sharp decline in security values which reflect the multitude of economic, social, and political problems of our country. No one can forecast the length of time required to control inflation, end the Vietnam war, and bring about restoration of confidence which in turn will no doubt have a salutary effect on all investments. Secondly, because of inflation we have raised our staff salaries, but wish that we had the resources for further increases. Also we must pay more for all goods and services needed to operate the Institute. For the year 1961-1962 our total operating costs were $68,313 and we had a loss of $845 for the year. For 1969-1970 our costs were $148,000 and our deficit was approximately $38,000. For the current year we have budgeted a deficit of $51,000 with general expenses estimated to be $148,700. These figures are far from reassuring. However, last year we received unrestricted gifts of $27,000 which reduced the deficit to about $11,000. It is readily apparent that unrestricted gifts in the order of $40,000 must be forthcoming during the current fiscal year if we are to avoid an increase in our deficit. Under present conditions this will not be an easy task but it is essential that the money be raised if we are to fulfill our obligations and avoid curtailment of our services. Substantial additions to our endowment funds by gifts or be¬ quests present the only long-range solution to our financial prob¬ lems. We are not alone in this dilemma and if misery loves com¬ pany we can share our woes with practically every museum and university in the country. We must recognize that the raising of 196 ESSEX INSTITUTE funds should not be the sole responsibility of the Director but must be shared by all of us. The construction of the addition to our fireproof stacks and the enlargement of the front hall have, of course, added to our costs. However they have added immeasurable tangible and intangible benefits. The exhibitions, lectures, and meetings held in this room have been made possible only by the renovation of the front hall and addition of the McCarthy Gallery. The George S. Parker Memorial Lecture given here last Saturday by Walter Cronkite was a memorable and shining example of what these changes have made possible. The addition to our fireproof library stacks has at last provided the space for the proper preservation of our priceless collections of books, broadsides and manuscripts. Under Mrs. Potters able di¬ rection this material is now being assimilated and catalogued. By itself our building and renovation program is important, but of greater significance is the interest and enthusiasm that has been generated among people to whom at best the Essex Institute was only a name and who had no knowledge of the extent of our collections. This interest will I am sure continue to grow and we will obtain new members and donors. Mere numbers are not the criteria of a successful institution, and we most assuredly do not want to be inundated by vast hordes of visitors. We now have the capability of receiving many more visitors to our museum and houses, and I do not see any immediate prospect of our succumbing to a tidal wave of humanity. However, it is most important that we do not lose sight of the unique resources which we possess for study and scholarly re¬ search. The time available to our staff is limited but we should try to place our emphasis on educational tours and lectures for various age groups. We could not function without the many loyal friends who are giving so much of their time to the Institute. The Ladies Com¬ mittee under its Chairman Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon has per¬ formed miracles and we are most grateful for their hard work and interest. My only exposure to their activities was when I stopped in briefly after Mrs. Belden’s lecture during the “Exhibition of Three Centuries of Table Settings” and found myself surrounded by at least 150 women who were as interested and obviously de¬ lighted as I was nonplussed to find myself in such a throng. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 197 Our many other volunteers have performed invaluable service and we are most grateful for the many hours they spend at the Institute. No museum or library ever had a more loyal or cooperative staff and the countless letters we receive from visitors and students ex¬ pressing their gratitude for assistance given to them is heartwarm¬ ing evidence of their service. Our Director, David Little, needs all his great talents and en¬ ergy to cope with the multitude of problems that arise, whether it be outwitting pigeons on our buildings or coping with a Paul Revere bell. His dedication to the Institute is complete, and his constant purpose of improving the quality of our collections and preserving them properly for posterity governs the course he is steering. The Council or board of trustees has always exercised sound judgement and has not avoided difficult or controversial decisions — and some of these decisions have not been easy. I regret that this must be my final report as president, but I be¬ lieve strongly that no one person should hold the office too long. I therefore have requested a committee of Council members to nominate my successor. For me these have been rewarding and wonderful years, and I will always treasure my close association with everyone connected with the Institute. In the past few years we have seen what Mr. Cronkite aptly called an “erosion in our self confidence,” and deep and bitter divisions within our society. The cultural assets of the Institute are of particular importance in today’s confused world, a world that tends not to reflect upon our past, but to chart new and dangerous routes based on the quicksands of turmoil and unrest. The Institute today more than ever has a greater obligation and need to preserve our outstanding houses, museum and library. Here we have tangible evidence of the growth and spirit of our country. These are values that cannot be changed, and hopefully the present generation may find in them a guide for these troubled times and for the future. Respectfully submitted, Albert Goodhue President REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR In this, the 122nd year of our existence, I have the honor to present my third annual report on the state of the Essex Institute. Benefits are still rolling in from the new construction planned by Dean A. Fales, Jr., then Director, with Albert Goodhue, then and still President of the Essex Institute, and completed on June 1, 1967. Our buildings are in better shape and we are taking better care of our collections than ever before. Much remains to be done before the quality of our stewardship approaches the quality of our collections, but we have made a good start. We are on our way. This happy situation is the subject of my report tonight after one brief and sorrowful note. Miss Bessom S. Harris died on November 5, 1969. She came to us on April 1, 1913, as Office Manager. Through the Salem Fire, two World Wars, and the Great Depression, she proved her¬ self equal to every challenge, mastered every position on the staff, earned the respect of all and the affection of many. She retired on December 1, 1967, but she kept in touch. The Institute is stronger today because of her long service, high standards, and tenacity of purpose. Better, not bigger, continues to be our motto. We have all of the space we can expect to support, although we hope someday to have a combined carriage house, furniture storage, and heating plant on Brown Street. It is imperative for us, therefore, to make the best possible use of the space we have, and this we are doing. One of the best uses of our space has been achieved by our Ladies Committee under the leadership of Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon. These ladies have brought a new dimension to the Insti¬ tute, working with sensitivity and skill to provide services which the staff cannot. Our recent table setting exhibition is their most conspicuous success to date but they have added a warm personal touch to all of our gatherings during the year and flowers to brighten our rooms as well. We have long been famous for the quality of housekeeping ac¬ complished by our own Mrs. Beechey and Mrs. Cook. It is increas- 198 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 199 ingly apparent to everyone who comes through our doors that the Essex Institute is loved and cared for, and this is what our visitors remember longest. At the annual meeting last year I spoke with pride of the cove lighting recently installed in the main gallery of our museum. This year the same anonymous donor has enabled us to light those parts of the gallery which the new central lighting cannot reach. All of the old wiring there is being replaced. The combination fuse box and toaster serving the second floor of the museum will soon be no more. The Corinthian capitals in the main gallery, long shrouded in chicken wire to prevent their crumbling ornament from falling on our visitors, have been rebuilt to display once again their original beauty. On the library side, Daland House has been completely rewired from attic to cellar, bringing adequate illumination for the first time to rooms where librarians once searched, flashlight in hand, for the rare and valuable books concealed therein. The storage room beneath our feet has also been rewired, its ceilings no longer a cobweb of extension cords. One anonymous donor has made all of this possible. He has increased the usefulness of our space, decreased the possibility of fire from aged and overloaded circuits, and generated in the staff a sense of gratitude intense enough, if translated into electricity, to light the whole of Essex County. We are taking better care of our collections within these im¬ proved spaces, too. A generous gift from Stephen Phillips, matched by your gifts in response to our year-end appeal, has enabled us to double the number of sliding wire screens on which our paint¬ ings are hung when they are off exhibition. Now none of our paintings need to be stacked on the floor. The Duplicate Book Fund, created by the sale of books we could neither use nor even preserve, has reached a total of $70,000, and the task of weeding our library is far from complete. With this money we have reor¬ ganized our broadside collection so that it is now stored unfolded and flat in acid-free paper folders as recommended by the Library of Congress. Our collection of prints, drawings, and watercolors is being mounted in all-rag cardboard mats of standard sizes and stored in the shallow drawers of dust-proof metal cabinets. Your year-end gifts provided us with button-back frames in which an endless series of exhibitions of these long-hidden pictures can be 200 ESSEX INSTITUTE shown in our new second-floor gallery. Our Librarian and our Curator will mention in their reports other progress we have made in the preservation and control of our collections. Another way to improve the quality of space available for the safe housing of our treasures is to remove from it those objects we can neither use nor even preserve. Many of them were acquired during the period when we tried to be the biggest library and museum east of Boston, a policy which filled our barns and base¬ ments and caused grave injury to their contents. Once again we are concentrating on being the best collection anywhere of “authen¬ tic memorials relating to the civil history of Essex County” as specified in our charter. The work of thinning out the museum collections proceeds slowly and carefully. It has been made simpler by the generous loan to us of the top floor of Father Mathew Hall across the street from the Institute. We have gathered there, for study and eventual decision, all of our furniture which is not on exhibition. The money gained by the sale of excess museum objects is used to repair and preserve the objects which do indeed belong in our col¬ lections. We have no other source of funds for this purpose. We must remember that custody is costly, that we must make the best possible use of our limited funds as well as of our limited space. We do not know how long we may have the use of Father Mathew Hall nor do we know how long it will be before our combined carriage house, furniture storage, and heating plant on Brown Street is built. We cannot return the objects from Father Mathew Hall to the barns and basements from which they came because we know now, as we did not know before, that con¬ ditions in those spaces are hostile to the survival of their contents. If we must at some time rent adequate storage space, we must be sure that we are spending our limited funds only for the storage of furniture which we can use for study or exhibition. The dis¬ posal of the remainder should be accomplished with all deliberate speed before we are forced to move. So far I have spoken of improvements within our buildings. We have also made substantial improvements to their exteriors. Under the expert supervision of James R. Hammond, Chairman of our Maintenance Committee, long deferred maintenance work has been accomplished to make our buildings tight against the REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 201 weather. We are now including in our budget funds to keep these buildings tight and in good repair, using money given to us for that purpose when we have it and drawing from the general funds of the Institute when we do not. The need for endowment funds restricted to the maintenance of our period houses becomes in¬ creasingly urgent as wages in the building trades move higher. We have mounted an illuminated bulletin board outside our front door to inform passers-by of the special exhibitions and events to be enjoyed inside. One of our indispensable volunteers, William M. Houghton, built it to match the hanging signs which mark our properties. As our Brown Street entrance gave no indi¬ cation of what it is an entrance to, we have added a hanging sign there identical to the one at our Essex Street door. The entire staff joined forces to write a new brochure extolling our virtues, this brochure to be handed to visitors at our door and mailed to those whose interest and support we need. Reducing the long and eloquent first draft to a length appropriate to its purpose was a tremendous task. Our favorite artist, Gordon Smith, illus¬ trated it and copies of the completed masterpiece were mailed to our members last summer. Despite our best efforts, and yours, our income is less than a quarter of that required to operate at a level commensurate with the collections we have and intend to keep. All cultural institu¬ tions are feeling the pinch as rising costs leave fixed incomes far behind. We believe that the programs outlined in this report are as good a way as any to bring the Institute through this crisis with its Essex County collections intact. Our future, then, depends upon the continuing generosity of our friends and the skill with which we spend their gifts. The decision not to spend our money on the moving and storage of materials unrelated to our mission is an easy one, but there are others. Salaries are perhaps our most critical problem. We are concerned lest the quality of our staff diminish as our best people are forced to seek a living wage elsewhere. We have been unable to fill two vacancies for over a year: a third constable for daytime protection and a cataloguer to work on our manuscripts. Incompe¬ tent help in a complex institution such as a library or a museum can create havoc far more devastating, if less apparent, than that 202 ESSEX INSTITUTE achieved by an unrestrained pack of vandals let loose in the same institution. A store cannot operate for long with a staff composed entirely of sales people. Neither can we devote all of our time to serving the public. We must divide up our working hours in such a way that no essential task is left undone. With a small staff and a large collection this also means that no essential task is performed as well or as rapidly as we would wish. We have closed the museum office and the library on Saturdays, therefore, and our full staff is here on Mondays doing housework when the Institute is closed to the public. This schedule creates a hardship for those who can visit the Institute only on Saturdays, and we regret it. Only large sums of new money can remedy it. Despite their best precautions, and some are better than others, museums and libraries do lose objects from their collections to thieves and vandals. There are mysterious disappearances, too, sometimes caused by dishonesty but more often by carelessness or haste. Fires also take their toll, particularly from elderly institu¬ tions such as ours whose buildings are far from fire resistant. But, of course, you have insurance, people tell me, and they are utterly astonished to learn that we have very little. Not many museums have full insurance coverage because its cost is more than they can afford to pay. Insurance is a specialized industry providing a tremendous range of choice to its customers. The most important decision to be made in buying insurance is the determination of what kind of protection is wanted. This entire report has dealt with the positive measures of protection we have taken to preserve our hold¬ ings from loss or damage. No insurance payments could ever com¬ pensate us for the loss of what we now have. We would like to augment these positive measures with enough insurance coverage to enable us to start over again if disaster should strike one or more of our buildings. The cost of this cover¬ age equals the entire salary budget for the museum. We cannot afford both. Without a competent museum staff we cannot defend our museum collections against wear and tear, gradual deteriora¬ tion, moths, vermin, and inherent vice. These forces operate twenty-four hours a day on no budget at all. No insurance policy REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 2°3 offers protection against them. If we abandon our positive meas¬ ures of protection to guard ourselves against the many risks which can be covered by insurance, we will soon find ourselves guarding an empty shell. In order to keep a good staff and carry adequate, but far from complete, insurance coverage, we need another half million dollars of endowment. We have much to offer prospective donors whose interests do not cover the whole range of our activities. To those who are in¬ terested in gardens, we have our Louise du Pont Crowninshield Gardens; in period houses, we have eight; in manuscripts, one of America’s great collections; in conservation, paintings and prints badly in need of expert attention; in scholarship, our quarterly publication the Essex Institute Historical Collections; in lectures and musical programs, we have this hall and chairs enough to fill it. All of these methods of fulfilling the functions of the Essex In¬ stitute bring pleasure to our visitors; all of them need financial aid. Thanks to the wisdom, generosity, and foresight of a century of friends, we have splendid collections. We can make just as effective use of them today as our friends are willing to support. Respectfully submitted, David B. Little Director REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY Increasing numbers of persons from the academic world are focusing on the Essex Institute and the James Duncan Phillips Library. Growing in popularity are the demographic studies of the area, for which groups and individuals make repeated use of our vital records, local histories and manuscripts, especially the church, tax, and town records and the account books, diaries, and commercial and personal correspondence of the merchants and businessmen of Salem — the men who played such an important part in building Essex County and eventually the United States. We had thirty-one scholars working on doctoral dissertations, ten on masters’ degrees and twenty-five writing books. These scholars represented 25 universities. From Brandeis University came Mrs. Margaret H. Baum, a doctoral candidate on the subject, “Salem Religion and Social Structure, 1780-1850.” Dr. James K. Somerville, from State University College, Geneseo, New York, is doing research for a book on “The Family in Colonial Salem,” a demographic study. He used seventy manuscript collections. Mr. Ross W. Beales, Jr., from the University of California at Davis is completing a demographic study in the social history of Salem in the seventeenth century entitled “Cares For the Rising Genera¬ tion — Youth and New England Churches.” Other subjects con¬ sidered by our visiting scholars were “Legal Changes in Massachu¬ setts, 1760-1830, Rebuilding From the American Revolution;” “Old New England History of Crafts, 1800-1860;” “Responses to the Industrial City in 19th Century America;” shipping to Russia from Salem; Newburyport shipping; reaction to the Stamp Act of 1765 by the colonists, particularly in Salem. Alfred Rosa from the University of Massachusetts was pursuing the history of transcendentalism and lyceums in Salem and used forty manu¬ script collections. Mr. Saunders from Bowdoin College is doing an in depth study on the “Importation of English Furniture to the Colonies.” From Scotland and the University of Edinburgh came Mr. Gundara to work on American commercial and civil agents in Zanzibar. Mr. Jenneck A. K. Terrell of Australia has done Pacific 204 REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 20 5 history research for the Pacific Manuscript Bureau in Australia. Mrs. Warren C. Usrey came to use antislavery material in prepara¬ tion for her doctoral dissertation on Charles Lenox Remond, a Salem abolitionist. And from Boston University Mr. Walz came to work on ‘‘Trade in Egypt, 1750-1900.” Some of these scholars are becoming close associates of our Institute by virtue of contrib¬ uting articles to our Historical Collections and editing some of our hitherto unpublished material. Other interesting patrons of our library have been Professor Robert Moody who sought background material for his work of editing the Saltonstall Papers; Miss Nancy Goyne Evans from Winterthur, who searched our account books for records of imported English furniture; and an officer from the American embassy in Indonesia who checked our Salem Ship Reg¬ isters to select the name of a ship that sailed from Salem to Ba¬ tavia as the name for a new pleasure yacht. The foregoing is not a full report on the researchers who came to our library or of the collections and material used, but it should serve to indicate the diversity of the subjects studied. It should also point out what a tremendous part our Institute plays in the recording of history; truly we are serving the purpose set forth by our founding fathers. We are taking part in Boston University’s Graduate Program in American and New England studies beginning in September 1970. This program will emphasize the contribution of New Eng¬ land to American civilization. It is designed to prepare students as college and university teachers of American studies, historians, administrators, curators, and librarian historians. A student will work as well as study while he is here by cataloging and editing our uncataloged manuscript holdings. Thus the project will be beneficial to both of us. We have had an increase in attendance of 200 readers over last year. We served a total of 3,957 readers. Additions to our periodical collection were increased by 80, making a total of 1180. Our inter-library loans increased by 7 with 33 items going out to libraries in Georgia, Virginia, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Maine, North Carolina, Michigan, California and to publishing firms for reprinting or microfilming. Our corres¬ pondence has noticeably increased in spite of the fact that our witchcraft and genealogy queries are now answered by form letters. 206 ESSEX INSTITUTE Printed additions to the library by gift numbered 473. Mr. Frederick J. Bradlee gave a collection of photos and newspaper clippings on the relocation and restoration of the Crowninshield- Bentley house and an item, The Trial of George Crowninshield; also, The Second Trial of John Francis Knapp , an important pam¬ phlet that we did not have. Donald Bixby, the owner of Cogley’s, a business on Essex Street that had to move to make room for urban renewal, gave 50 items, all concerning Salem people: photographs, certificates, diplomas, from 1808 to 1932. Robert P. Donnell of Salem from Clark University in Worcester gave a copy of his thesis, “Dynamics of Locational Change in the North Shore Shoe & Leather Industry, the Effect of the Confla¬ gration at Salem, June 25, 19 14.” His research was done here. From Edward A. Coffey, former mayor of Salem, came a framed document of the Commonwealth to “lay out and construct a thoroughfare from Bertram Square to Essex Street,” May 18, 1915, plus the pen used by David I. Walsh, then Secretary of the Commonwealth, to sign it. Printed and manuscript material came as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Caliga of Danvers. Mr. Caliga is the son of Phoebe Woodman Grantham, who was the Little Red Riding Hood of Whittier’s poem. Items in the collection are related to or written by John G. Whittier. Among them is a 5-inch by 7-inch photo of a painting by the Danvers artist, I. H. Caliga, the donor’s father, the original of which is hanging in Daniel Low & Co. behind the jewelry counter and which features as subjects two Salem people; and a cap that Mrs. Caliga, the artist’s mother, was sewing on at the time of Whittier’s death in 1892. In all, the collection contains 16 volumes of Whittier’s printed works and 85 items of letters and articles. Gifts of manuscripts to the library numbered 27 separate items plus 15 collections with so many items that we have not included them in this figure: From The Essex North Women’s Congregational Fellowship as a permanent deposit, brought in by Mrs. Richard S. Gynan of Georgetown, 5 volumes of records of the society. REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 207 From William I. Nichols of New York, a Nichols family bible with genealogical material of the Nichols family. Mr. Nichols asked that it be placed in the Peirce-Nichols House, and it is there now. From The New Canaan Historical Society of Connecticut, 10 manuscript items related to Essex County including reports, peti¬ tions, deeds and handbills. From Mr. Dudley S. Currier of Newburyport, a cabinetmaker, his collection of mounted photographs of the furniture that he has made, advertisements, a full catalog and lists of his work and his accounts. Mrs. Evelyn MacFarland instigated the bringing of his material together and the gift of it to us. From The Congregational Church of Topsfield, Massachusetts, as a permanent deposit, Parson Capen’s book, 1684-1724; parish records, 1824-1878 (includes record of incorporation of the Congregational Church under the Act of 1823); and parish records, 1879 to 1911. Mrs. Benjamin W. English and Mrs. J. Jasen delivered this collection. From the Topsfield Historical Society — an extensive collection which is in the process of being cataloged. We have purchased only 6 manuscript items : Drawings in ink of occupations of the Chinese in the 19th century for our China Library; an oath dated 1807 and signed by Joseph Story; a journal of Abijah Northey, 1832-1836, a Salem goldsmith; and an account book on the administration of William S. Moreland’s estate in Andover, Massachusetts. The relatively small number of manuscripts purchased is indicative of two facts : that we already have in our collections a representative amount of material and that some items of this nature are out of our reach because of the prohibitive price placed upon them. In March a remarkable and exciting collection relating to Frank W. Benson was given to us by his daughter, Mrs. Ralph P. Law- son. Frank Benson was the talented and noted painter, etcher and teacher well known to all of us here as well as to others throughout the world. He was born in Salem in 1862, resided here, and died here in 1951. He received his technical education in drawing and painting in America and Paris. A great many of his works are 208 ESSEX INSTITUTE in the Museum of Fine Arts where he was an instructor from 1889 to 1918. He received many medals and awards from leading museums in America and Europe where he is represented by his works. The collection consists of personal papers, diaries, albums, and catalogs and photographs of his works. This material will serve as a background for a deserving biography in the future. Purchase of printed items for the year numbered 139, of which 1 8 were added to our China library and 1 8 to the art col¬ lection. The remaining items were in the categories of Essex County history and genealogy, and Americana. Library contributions to exhibitions in the auditorium this year were: in October, examples of early printing, publishing and bookselling in Essex County for a meeting of the Society of Printers of Boston; Samuel Chamberlain holdings for the autograph party for the author’s Stroll Through Historic Salem, published in 1969; Christmas cards and Carriers’ addresses for the Christmas exhibit; and items relating to George Washington as a background for the Lyceum Lecture by Bertram K. Little. Displayed in the library we had a diorama of a Salem wharf of 1820 created by three 7th-grade students from St. Thomas’ School in Peabody, Peter J. Giunta, Robert Duffy and Joel Hart¬ nett. It won first prize at the school’s Culturama. By practice, we direct grammar school children to the public library, but, be¬ cause these boys were earnest, bright, and well behaved, we helped them and we hope that we have started them on a career as his¬ tory majors. The model was viewed by many and Mr. Philip C. F. Smith of the Peabody Museum was pleased with the results since they used his diorama of a Salem wharf as a pattern. We assisted and made available our material to Mrs. Frederick Sanders, Mrs. Bruce Harriman, and Mrs. Robert Liming of Marblehead for an exhibit on World Wars I and II, prepared by the Marblehead Creative Arts Committee in collaboration with the Marblehead school system. We also cooperated with Mrs. Brad¬ ford S. Wellman, the daughter of Stephen Wheatland, and Mary Louise Giddings, both of Bangor, Maine, in gathering from our Pingree collection accounts and letters which were xeroxed for an exhibit in Bangor on early timberlands. We aided Mrs. Harold Pratt of Brookline in searching for a name with a colonial flavor REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 209 for a grocery chain and gave cataloging advice to Mrs. Sewall Winter of the Old Gaol Museum in York, Maine. Mrs. Richard C. Harrison, 3rd, and Mrs. Ronald Woodward, chairmen for this area of the Junior League committee preparing a new Guide to Essex County, used many of our photographs and local histories. The library staff has been active this year. Miss Mary Ritchie, cataloger, went to a seminar at Old Sturbridge Village and also took a course in Essex County history at the North Shore Com¬ munity College. I attended the meetings of the Essex County his¬ torical societies and the North Shore Library Club where I was appointed to the scholarship board. I was also appointed as a mem¬ ber of the Salem Witch Memorial Committee. I had the pleasure of hosting the meeting of the Massachusetts Library Trustees in November at their morning session held in this auditorium and of conducting 40 members of the Ladies Committee on a tour of the library archives to acquaint them with our holdings. Interest in witchcraft has been on the increase. Several gram¬ mar, high school, college and advanced study groups came to see our permanent exhibit in the museum and the special exhibit which we arrange with additional material. A high school teacher, Mr. R. M. Davie Harris of Napier, New Zealand, worked here for several days gathering witchcraft data for background for a lit¬ erature course. Improvement of our library collections consumed a good part of our staff time and fiscal allotment. We have bound 264 volumes, added to the current file of Salem Evening News on microfilm and purchased 206 films of the back file, bringing closer to completion our holdings on past issues of the Salem paper on microfilm. We have rescued important periodicals from the annex and added them to our shelves. We also brought from the same area 400 volumes of books on religion and 5,000 pamphlets of ad¬ dresses, lectures, and sermons by the ministers of the 18th and 19th centuries. All of these have been checked against our card catalog for duplicates, of which there were a small number. The rest will be added to our collections. Attic periodicals have been put in order. We find that we have an outstanding collection both in quantity and quality of English and American periodicals of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cen¬ turies. 210 ESSEX INSTITUTE Great strides have been made in the reading and putting in order of the Essex County collection. Reading and re-shelving of the marine collection were completed. We have nearly completed the project on the broadsides, transferring them into new flat storage, mending and checking each against the shelf list, handling some 7,078 items. Our music collection is still being worked on with the help of Barbara Owen, a musicologist. Three experts, Mr. Arthur Schrader, Dr. Hans Nathan, and Mr. Richard Craw¬ ford, helped us with the identification of many individual items of music. Our part-time help who worked during the summer and Christ¬ mas vacations but who are no longer with us were: Mrs. Karin Tristan, Diane Dube and Janet L. Crowley. Our regular part-time assistants are Judith F. Beston, a student at Salem State College, and John H. Wheeler, who is a student at Marblehead High School. Our volunteers have been: Sargent Bradlee, Dr. W. Benjamin Bacon, Ruth R. Ropes, J. Andrew Heath, Scott Merrill, Barbara Owen and Eleanor Broadhead. Mrs. Ralf P. Emerson continues to be our consultant on colonial history and early colonial shipping. The contribution of the time and work done by our volunteers is greatly appreciated; without it our many accomplishments could not have been made. The demands upon the full-time staff of three have been over¬ whelming. We have not replaced Susan Davis who left to marry last June. We hope that a qualified replacement comes along this year. Miss Mary Ritchie, cataloger, and Mrs. Irene Norton, librar¬ ian attending the reference desk, assist in other duties besides their assigned ones. I am indebted and grateful to both. Mrs. Norton has been invaluable in directing and working with the assistants in the broadside project, shelf reading, as well as in the shelving and care of the material used every day. To get just one book on the shelf ready for the reader there are ten steps that take skill and time of six people. You can imagine the time and effort involved in handling the large collections that are added each year, in addition to serving the people, shelv¬ ing, correspondence, preparing for groups, making available our manuscripts to scholars, selecting material for exhibitions, and REPORT OF THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY 21 I attending to the many other matters that are directed to our at¬ tention. We are proud of our accomplishments. The staff works in a congenial and pleasant manner. We are grateful to record the comment by many of our visitors that among research libraries The James Duncan Phillips Library ranks high in their esteem and is considered the greatest place in which to work. Respectfully submitted, Dorothy M. Potter Librarian REPORT OF THE MUSEUM The gifts we receive for our museum and houses form the backbone of our collections. We are grateful to all our donors, though we can mention only a few on this occasion. We received from Mrs. Arthur Havlin, in memory of ]. Donaldson Nichols, the second of a pair of Sheraton-style armchairs, one of which she gave us last year. These are part of a set carved by Samuel Mc- Intire, originally in the Peirce-Nichols House, and one of them has been illustrated in the May 1970 issue of Antiques magazine. Mrs. John M. Leverett and her sons, John E. and Theodore W. Leverett, have given us a 17th-century embroidered cuff, from a glove which belonged to Governor John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1673 to 1679. His portrait hangs in our second floor gallery, and this early embroidery, which is now being suitably mounted and framed for preservation, is one of several objects we own connected with him. Other Essex County objects among the 290 gifts received this year are an ivory model of the ship Panay , a vessel owned by Silsbee, Pickman and Allen of Salem, given by George E. McQuesten, and examples of 18th-century architectural finish from the Samuel Pickman House now being restored on Liberty Street, the gift of Philip A. Budrose. Mrs. Gertrude B. Kent gave us a silver spoon made by the firm of B. M. Chamberlain & Son in Salem, and Mayor Francis X. Collins presented the oil painting showing the old Salem Railroad Station which is exhibited in our entrance hall. Samuel Chamber- lain gave us fourteen of his photographs of historic buildings in Salem. From the Estate of Helen Gardner Dove we received a mortar and pestle which had belonged to her grandfather, the apothecary William Webb. The contents of his shop, originally established at 54 Essex Street, form the basis of the Institute’s apothecary shop as set up in the lean-to of our John Ward House. Another gift of very local interest is a doll which had belonged to Ella Low, of the Daniel Low family of Salem. The doll was sent to us in Ella Low Coca’s memory as a gift from her friend, Mrs. F. G. Hodges. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Merrill contributed their 212 REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 21 3 skill as doll experts in making some repairs and freshening the costume of this charming little Salem person of the past. An attractive small oil painting, Cooting off Devereux Rocks, Marblehead, was given by Steven Juvelis, and a pair of oil por¬ traits of John and Catherine (Felt) Jewett of Salem by Mrs. Willard B. Dik. Thirteen articles, housewares, from Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Cousins, include a rare baby-minder, and again this year we appreciate the generosity of the Cousinses in gifts for our Crowninshield-Bentley House. We cannot name here the many donors of fine costumes for our collection, and we are most grate¬ ful to those donors for having preserved these dresses and acces¬ sories in condition suitable for turning them over to Essex Insti¬ tute. Among these items is a rare waistcoat of black damask, with a repeating woven pattern of a portrait of General Lafayette. It dates from his visit to the United States in 1824 and 1825, and is the gift of Miss Eleanor Bradford Allen. Lea S. Luquer, Honorary Curator of Coins, through purchase and gift, has brought our coin collection up to within five replace¬ ments of the pieces stolen in 1966. We have made a few small purchases of prints this year, and other small items, our chief pur¬ chase having been the delightful bronze statue of a child, Jennie, exhibited on the museum second floor landing. This is the work of Beverly B. Seamans, and gives pleasure to both children and adult visitors. Attendance in the museum this year was 41,577, that is, 6,775 more than last year, and included 13 1 children’s groups and 48 adult groups. Among the latter, visiting both the museum and our houses, were the enthusiastic Friends of the Cabildo from Louisiana, the Early American Industries Association, the Provi¬ dence Preservation Consultation and Research Committee, the Radcliffe Institute, the Committee for the Swett Mansion in Port¬ land, Maine, and, greatly enjoying their visit to our Peirce-Nichols House, a group of foreign personnel from General Electric. Our houses had more visitors this year, with the exception of the Pingree House, which was closed for painting of the first floor rooms, the halls and stairway during our ordinarily busy spring season, in 1969. The Pingree House had 2,814 visitors, the Crowninshield-Bentley had 1,295, the Ward House was the win¬ ner with 2,924, and the Peirce-Nichols House, which is open only 214 ESSEX INSTITUTE on afternoons, had 819 admissions. We cannot give enough thanks to the 56 volunteer Guides who showed our houses last year, on whose help we are depending again for this coming season. The Director's wife gave us 60 volunteer hours last summer. These ladies are maintaining the standards of excellence for which Essex Institute’s guiding is known, and this tradition is noted in the guiding of Mrs. Montgomery Merrill and Mrs. Ray K. Moore in the Pingree House, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Burns in the Peirce- Nichols House, Miss Helen Stevens, last summer’s staff guide, and the young men who show the houses on Sunday afternoons in summer. Not only are we greatly indebted to our volunteer Guides, but also to our volunteer Ladies Committee, which, under the able chairmanship of Mrs. William Benjamin Bacon, has done so much for the Institute this year. They have kept our museum and houses filled with fresh flowers, have undertaken a large part of office work dealing with notices, invitations, and tickets, and, as host¬ esses, have prepared, presided and poured at morning coffee, af¬ ternoon tea, and evening punch, for particular occasions. Some of these special events during the past year were the Margaret Nowell Graham Lecture given by Senator Leverett Sal- tonstall on “The Importance of Historic Institutes in Troubled Times,” and the Lyceum Lecture given by Bertram K. Little, Director of The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, on “George Washington’s New England, 1789.” For a second year, three morning programs, open free to the public, showed films from Colonial Williamsburg, with coffee served by the Ladies Committee. Two very glamorous events took place. Last May, our costume show “Reflections in Fashion: the Victorian Years, 1837-1901” was presented on three successive days, with living models wearing costumes from Essex Institute’s collections. Our Honorary Curator of Costumes, John Burbidge, and his talented wife, with help from many skillful friends, put a number of our costumes into condition for this event, which featured the eras of the romantic, the opulent, the elegant, and the Ladies Fair. The other particularly glamorous affair actually belongs in next years Annual Report, but cannot pass unremarked in this one — that was the beautiful loan exhibition of table settings put REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 215 on by the Ladies Committee early in May of 1970, which will be more fully described next year. Certainly the pretty side of history was well dished up in these two affairs. Our John Ward House, built in 1684, and our Peirce-Nichols House, built by Samuel Mclntire in 1782, were honored this year by being designated as National Historic Landmarks by the National Park Service. A plaque-placing party in the garden last August celebrated these two houses. So designated, they are riot only honored, they are also protected from future errant bull¬ dozers. Three loan exhibitions to Essex Institute this year included the interesting early paper dolls lent by Mrs. Rupert Jaques, primarily for a meeting here of the Doll Collectors’ Club of America, and a collection of drawings and paintings lent by the artist, Allan Rohan Crite, during the Christmas season. The latter told the story of the Nativity and other religious subjects, one of the most striking being the series Go Tell it on the Mountain. Another group of loans was from Samuel Chamberlain, from whom we borrowed a number of his own original drawings and prints for the exhibition of his work which celebrated the autograph party for his new book, A Stroll Through Historic Salem. This gather¬ ing paid honor to a long-time friend of Essex Institute, printmaker, photographer, and gourmet par excellence. The museum and library joined forces in setting up two exhi¬ bitions, “Christmas Gifts of the Past,” and “George Washington,” the latter to coincide with Bertram K. Little’s Lyceum Lecture. For both, the museum contributed objects in the round and prints, and the library other flat case material. I think that such a com¬ bination of museum and library material combined is potentially one of our most valuable types of exhibition, and one of the most educational. Two other exhibitions unearthed objects from base¬ ment, attic, and barns. These were last summer’s “Architectural Fragments of Essex County,” and our current “Signs of the Times.” It was the first time in many years that some of these examples of carved or painted wood, or stone or plaster, had seen the light of day. They were located, assembled, repaired, and mounted for exhibition by John Wright and Robert Egleston of the museum staff, and our superintendent, Ray K. Moore. 2l6 ESSEX INSTITUTE In the museum, Mrs. John Hassell, Registrar, has processed the 290 gifts received this year, and with the assistance of Miss Mary Huntley, 364 objects have been accessioned. Mrs. Hassell has also recorded incoming and outgoing loans. Locally, we have lent to the City of Salem for Mayor Samuel E. Zoll’s office, to the American Red Cross building in Salem, and to two exhibitions at the Peabody Museum. The Danvers Historical Society, the North Andover Historical Society, and the Concord Public Li¬ brary have borrowed from us, and we lent the Marblehead Crea¬ tive Arts Committee material for five Junior High School exhi¬ bitions. We sent portraits to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for the Old South Church anniversary, prints to Washington to decorate the office of Congressman Michael J. Harrington, a mus¬ ket to Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and a small table to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for their 100th anniversary exhibition. Martha Hassell did most of the detail work for all these comings and goings, and in between found time to write the article on the portrait of Adon- iram Judson for our Historical Collections published in the Octo¬ ber 1969 issue. Our project of examining duplicate material continues slowly, and is concerned with objects which we do not expect to exhibit because of condition, quality, or lack of relevance to our collec¬ tions. One happy solution was found in the placing of a large table-model topographical layout of Salem as it looked in 1700, too large and in too poor condition for exhibition here. Efforts to find a suitable recipient who really wanted it were successful, and the Salem Maritime National Site was pleased to accept it as a gift, with the hope of restoring it in the future, and exhibiting it to show the importance of Salem’s waterways before so much land was filled in. A leading project this year has been the matting of a large part of our collection of prints, drawings, and watercolors. For this purpose, Miss Charlotte Ballou has been on our staff for several months, cutting rag mats for them in order to better preserve them. During our survey of this material some wonderful things have come to light, and this project, dear to the heart of our Di¬ rector, is very well worth doing. Three volunteers, Mrs. Harper Cannon, Mrs. William A. Slade, Jr., and Miss Mary Silver Smith REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 217 have helped me with the sorting, processing, and locating of the finished works. This type of work takes a great deal of precision in the mat cutting, and detail work in the record-keeping, and our volunteers have advanced the cause greatly. As of March 31st of this year, Miss Ballou had matted approximately 700 items, and we had completely processed about 650 of them. Another volunteer, Ellery W. Giddings, whose knowledge in the field of early American military equipment has been invalu¬ able, has worked with Mrs. Emerson Lalone of our museum staff. They have cleaned, sorted, and located according to type almost all of our collection through sheer perseverance and sleuthsman- ship. Again, we on the staff express our thanks to these volunteers, and to three young ladies and one young man who helped us last summer in various capacities: to the Misses Margaret Baden- hausen, Shannon Shreve, Martha Teichner, and to Benjamin Sax. On our staff, Robert Egleston has returned after doing time with the Navy, and he and John Wright have done a big job of painting and rearranging cases. Charlotte Hosmer and Margaret Badenhausen, known to many of our Guides as sort of house mothers last year, being in charge of the Guides’ schedules, have both left us for matrimony. Mrs. David Mills has left us for motherhood. We miss them all, and wish them well. Maintenance of our collections is a never-ending process. We have had three pastel portraits treated, some of our collection by Benjamin Blyth, an 18th-century Salem artist. Two other ex¬ amples, rare oil portraits signed and dated by Blyth, are now being restored, as Essex Institute has been chosen one of the recipients of financial aid from the Council on the Arts and Humanities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex Institute will match these funds, which we receive as part of the Council’s project in historic restoration and preservation. Maintenance in our houses, being done under the guidance of Mrs. Bertram K. Little, J. Sanger Attwill, and James R. Ham¬ mond, has incuded not only the interior painting already described in the Pingree House, but some stairway and hall painting in the Peirce-Nichols House, and the addition of some lighting in the Ward House. In the Assembly House, in removing the old hall wallpaper, evidence of pediments formerly over the hall door- 2l8 ESSEX INSTITUTE ways was found and we have had replicas of these made, based on the existing outlines found on the plaster walls. The hall now has its new pediments in place, the woodwork painted according to colors found in scraping back to the original paint, and an attractive new wallpaper of chrysanthemum design. There is still much to be done before the Assembly House will be open and ready to join our other historic houses as an authentically fur¬ nished attraction. One of our greatest needs is for funds to care for the most basic requirements of rudimentary housekeeping. Those are the ever-recurring needs for fresh paint, for minor repairs, especially for cleaning of rugs and curtains, new shades or blinds as needed, and re-upholstery of chairs and sofas. Last year we had a number of curtains cleaned in the Pingree, Crowninshield-Bentley and Safford houses, and had planned to do others this year and estab¬ lish an orderly system of rotating care, but no funds are available. Some of the furniture in the Pingree House is badly in need of new covering, and the parlor curtains will need replacement be¬ fore long. We shall soon be in the situation of having two or three houses needing complete new textile furnishings, or else becom¬ ing famous for their shabby window-hangings and disintegrating upholstery. This is curatorial carping, when one considers the wonderful accomplishments of the past year. At last, the handsome capitals of the columns in our second floor large gallery have been repaired, and are no longer distinguished by wire cages draped around them to keep the plaster leaves from falling off in large chunks. Now their original design shows not only clearly, but safely. This beautiful gallery is one of our finest assets as a setting for a dis¬ tinguished museum collection, and it can now be fully enjoyed, and all the more so for the new lighting which has been installed in some of the cases and in the three period rooms. In our storage area the addition of a second installment of racks for hanging paintings means that many of our paintings which for years have been leaning on each other may now be both better preserved and more acccessible. On a much smaller scale, we have had some slides and postcards made showing our houses and some of the museum objects, and this is a sale item we hope we can gradually expand. REPORT OF THE MUSEUM 219 We on the museum staff would like to pay tribute to the mem¬ ory of the late Frederick J. Bradlee, former Chairman of the Museum Committee, and the guiding spirit in the restoration of the Crowninshield-Bentley House. The vitality of his interest in that house is evident; it speaks in every room. The cooperation of the entire staff is a blessing, and we thank them all. Our Housekeepers, Mrs. Sarah Beechey and Mrs. Mary Cook, and our Superintendent, Ray K. Moore and his assistant, Wilfred Pelletier, still claim our admiration for their ability to spring into instant emergency action and do or produce almost anything that anyone could ever need or want. Through the interest of our Director and the Museum Committee and various generous donors, many improvements have been made this year, and we thank them for their efforts on our behalf. To President Goodhue, for his constant interest in the museum, his advice and help on many occasions, we give our warmest thanks. My final remark concerns one small, but large wish for the year to come. For a long time we have had no display of our country’s flag outside our building, and I hope that some time soon, someone will arrange to put one somewhere! Respectfully submitted, Huldah S. Payson Curator REPORT OF THE TREASURER For the fiscal year which ended March 31, 1970, operating income was $110,000. Operating expenses were $148,700, leaving a deficit of $38,700. During the year we received $27,600. in gifts solicited for current operations. These were applied to the deficit leaving a balance of $11,100. In addition to these unrestricted gifts, we also received gifts of $20,700 for various restricted purposes. During the year an increase in sal¬ aries was approved, and somewhat more extensive repairs were carried out than had been anticipated at the beginning of the fiscal year. The market value of endowment funds on March 31, 1970 was $2,100,000 compared with $2,259,000 a year ago. Finan¬ cial statements prepared by our auditors accompany this report, and the books of the Institute are available in the treasurer’s office to any members who wish to see them. I wish to express my thanks to Gilbert R. Payson whom I suc¬ ceeded during the year for his helpful cooperation, and to Miss Kathryn Burke whose patience with a new treasurer has been boundless. Respectfully submitted, Edward H. Osgood Treasurer 220 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 221 CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET March 31, 1970 Cash Savings Bank Deposits Bonds — Book Value Stocks — Book Value Real Estate $ 35,875.08 60,000.00 743,572.14 671,322.90 1,017,829.37 Total $2,528,599.49 FUNDS Restricted as to Principal and Income “Margaret Duncan Phillips Fund” “George Swinnerton Parker Memorial Lecture Fund” Restricted as to Principal Only Unrestricted as to Principal and Income Essex Institute Fund Surplus Principal Income Accounts 464,833.51 22,224.19 40,000.00 337,253-96 713,585-63 636,370.93 242,202.78 72,128.49 $2,528,599.49 ¥******* Investments Dues Other Income CONDENSED INCOME ACCOUNT 100,084.22 8,486.00 96,855.68 TOTAL INCOME $ 205,425.90 Deduct: Miscellaneous Income Credited: Restricted Income Accounts 69,464.76 Restricted Income From Investments 29,855.67 99,320.43 Add: Restricted Income available for General Operations 106,105.47 3,932.43 NET INCOME AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL PURPOSES 110,037.90 EXPENDITURES Corporation 7,698.78 Salaries 104,076.31 Buildings and Grounds 25,311.67 Publication 3,152.85 Houses 3,589-80 Miscellaneous 4,902.11 148,731.52 INCOME OVEREXPENDED ($ 38,693.62) 222 ESSEX INSTITUTE FUNDS— RESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL AND INCOME March 31, 1970 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 98,731.66 10% of Income added to Principal 880.58 99,612.24 PEIRCE-NICHOLS HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND Established September 1967 Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, Jane N. Page, Mrs. Clarence Hardenbergh, H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. and Rosanna Kumins Additions to Fund — April 1, 1969 to March 31, 1970 Mrs. William B. Nichols 1 Mrs. Clarence Hardenbergh 1 Mrs. Raymond Z. Fahs, Jr. in memory of her father, William B. Nichols 1 Esther Hardenbergh Alice L. C. Dodge — in memory of Harriet Lamb and her sister Frances Lamb Enright Dr. George Nichols Mrs. Charles Dethier Mrs. Terry N. Clark Collis M. Hardenbergh Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page Miscellaneous donations from 19 donors (under $100.00) totalling ,000.00 ,000.00 ,000.00 553-73 500.00 500.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 437.00 10,31 5.00 5,490.73 15,805.73 CROWNINSHIELD-BENTLEY HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND Established March 1964 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Bradlee and Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison 10,219.75 Addition to Fund — April 1, 1969 to March 31, 1970 Mrs. James R. Hammond 500.00 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, Mrs. R. A. Wellington, Bailey Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Griffith Addition to Fund — April 1, 1969 to March 31, 1970 Mrs. Talbot Aldrich io,7I9-75 19,203.12 1,210.00 20,413.12 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 223 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 DUPLICATE BOOK FUND Established 1968 “Acquisition and preservation of rare books, broadsides and other printed materials” 25,436.11 24,450.03 35,000.00 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 15,000.00 “Annual Lecture” 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 ESSEX INSTITUTE 224 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” 500.00 Funds invested in securities $324,209.34 CROWNINSHIELD-BENTLEY HOUSE FUND Established April 1959 67,628.67 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 140,624.17 $464,833.51 FUNDS— THE MARGARET DUNCAN PHILLIPS FUND Income for Publication Dept, after 10% of Income is added to Principal Balance, April 1, 1969 $22,027.08 Income 1969-1970 — $1,971.13 $1,774.02 to Publication Dept. — 10% or $197.11 to Principal 197. 11 $22,224.19 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 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 225 FUNDS— RESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL ONLY Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute March 31, 1970 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 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) 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 5,000.00 226 ESSEX INSTITUTE Benefactors: In Memory of: George Peabody Gardner; Mrs. Augustus Peabody Loring, formerly Ellen Gardner; Mrs. George Howard Monks, formerly Olga Eliza Gardner; John Lowell Gardner ELIZA ENDICOTT PEABODY (wife of George Augustus Gardner 1834-1876) 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 Laittxe 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 Mrs. Alpheus Hyatt ALPHEUS HYATT Francis Welles Hunnewell WILLARD SILSBEE PEELE Mary C. White DANIEL APPLETON WHITE Manuscript Preservation Life Membership Fund Miscellaneous Memorial Funds 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 4,150.00 3,000.00 2,000.00 1,600.00 1,800.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 24,250.00 4,475.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 227 In Memory of: HENRY TUCKER DALAND MARY CRO WNIN SHIELD 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 CRO WNIN SHIELD WATERS DANIEL APPLETON WHITE EDMUND B. WILLSON KATE TANNATT WOODS $337,253-96 FUNDS— UNRESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL AND INCOME Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute March 31, 1970 Benefactors: George L. Ames $122,224.65 William C. Endicott 50,000.00 Walter Scott Dickson 35,393-n 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 Margaret H. Jewell 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 5,000.00 228 ESSEX INSTITUTE Benefactors: Stephen Willard Phillips Abel H. Proctor Marion Felt Sargent George Plummer Smith Abbie C. West Esther C. Mack Ellen B. Laight Mary S. Cleveland Clara B. Winthrop Harriet C. McMullan Edith C. Philbric Lucy A. Lander Dudley L. Pickman David P. Wheatland J. Frederick Hussey Frank P. Fabens Abbey W. Ditmore Charles L. Peirson Francis B. C. Bradlee Esther Files Susan S. Kimball Helen D. Lander Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr. Isabel S. Newcomb Legacy u/w Sophie O. Nichols Elizabeth S. Osgood Mary T. Saunders Annie G. Spinney J. Henry Stickney Grace A. Glover 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 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 4,770.00 4,075.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 3,828.14 3,048.84 3,000.00 3,000.00 2,500.00 2,500.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 1,959*37 1,500.00 1,100.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 870.55 778.70 500.00 500.00 500.00 500.00 100.00 to endowment 67,000.00 $713,585.63 FUNDS— UNRESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL AND INCOME March 31, 1970 ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND Established May 1964 Balance, March 31, 1969 Additions to Fund — April 1, 1969 to March 31, 1970 McCarthy Family Foundation Fidelity Foundation Mrs. Richard C. Paine Harold D. Hodgkinson Harriet Rantoul $609,81 5.68 5,000.00 4,000.00 2,000.00 1,485.00 1,000.00 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 229 Mrs. Sumner Pingree Elizabeth R. Farnham Ruth R. Farnham Mrs. Hubert A. Hovvson Mrs. U. Haskell Crocker Mrs. Cornelius C. Felton Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison Parker Charitable Foundation Miscellaneous donations from 148 donors (under $500.00) totalling 1,000.00 966.25 966.25 953-75 500.00 500.00 500.00 500.00 7,184.00 - 26,555.25 $636,370.93 *List of all donors to Essex Institute Fund since inception May 1964 listed elsewhere in this report. 230 ESSEX INSTITUTE DONORS TO THE ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND Established May, 1964 Donors 1964-1970 Abbott, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Abbott, Lilly 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. Berkal, Leonard A. Bethell, Mr. & Mrs. John W. Betts, Barbara B. Billias, Dr. George A. Bissell, Mrs. Alfred E. Blair, Mrs. George K . Boles, Mrs. Fabens Boulger, James FI., Jr. Bourgoin, Mrs. Alice S. Bowden, Mr. & Mrs. W. Ham¬ mond Bowers, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick E. Boyle, Daniel J. Boynton, 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. Bubier, Madeleine M. 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, Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd H. Cogswell, Mrs William Coles, Mrs. Ethel F. Collier, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Como, Mrs. Edward W. DONORS 231 Connolly, Gregory P., II Cook, Mr. & Mrs. Wallace C. Coolidge, J. Linzee Coolidge, Mr. 8c Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge, Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, William A. Copeland, Mrs. Charles H. P. Copeland, Katharine P. Cox, Edward Hyde Cram, Mr. 8c Mrs. G. Frank Crocker, Mr. 8c Mrs. U. Haskell Cruttenden, Florence B. Cunningham, Franklin N. Curran, Margaret M. (In memory of Dorich McGlennon) Curtis, E. Mahel Curtis, Harriet S. Curtis, Mary Danielson, Mrs. Richard E. Daughters of the American Revo¬ lution, Col. Timothy Picker¬ ing Chapter Davis, Dr. 8c Mrs. Stilman G., Jr. Davis, Walter G. De Blois, Dr. Elizabeth de Laittre, John de Laittre, Mrs. Karl De Moss, John E. Dennis, William Dickinson, Mr. 8c Mrs. Howard C. Dimond, Lee A. Doane, Mrs. Lewis Dodge, Ernest S. Doll Collectors of America, Inc. Donovan, Mrs. Alfred F. Donovan, Doran W. F. Donovan, Henry Lyons Driver, Mrs. Robert M. du Pont, Henry F. Durnin, Richard G. Dyer, Mrs. John R. Eastman, Mr. 8c Mrs. Roger K. Eaton, Charles, III Edgar, Mrs. Randolph Eilts, Hon. Hermann F. Ellis, Mr. 8c Mrs. Raymond Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P. Emilio, S. Gilbert Ervin, Mrs. Robert Gilpin Fales, Mr. 8c Mrs. Dean A. Fales, Mr. 8c Mrs. Dean A., Jr. Fales, Mrs. Herbert G. Farnham, Elizabeth R. Farnham, 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. Fonda, Mr. 8c Mrs. Douglass C., Jr- 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, Mr. 8c Mrs. Alfred C. Harwood, Bartlett Haskell, Paul T. Hassell, Mrs. John Hatch, Francis W. Hatch, Mr. 8c Mrs. Francis W., Jr. Hawes, Dr. Lloyd E. Heath, Mr. 8c Mrs. Andrew Hebard, Franklin A. 232 ESSEX INSTITUTE Heins, George Henry, Mrs. William A. Herter, Mrs. Christian A. Hewins, Alfred S. Higginson, F. L. Hill, Mr. & Mrs. Adams Hill, Hon. & Mrs. Robert W. Hilton, Mrs. Ralph T. Hixon, Frederick W. Hodgkins, Daniel L. Hodgkinson, Mr. & Mrs. 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, Mrs. Alan Howard, Carrington Howard, Mrs. Charles P. Howe, William M. Howson, Gertrude Farnham Hoyt, Dr. William D., Jr. Hunneman, Eleanor S. Hunt, Donald F. Hussey, Mr. & Mrs. Harold D. Ingraham, Mrs. Franc D. Irving, Mrs. E. du Pont Jackson, Esther Jaques, Mrs. Rupert Ward Jennings, Mrs. Frederic B. Jewett, Mr. & Mrs. Everett Douglas Johnson, Edward C., II Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. Edward C., Ill Johnson, Leonard W. Johnson, Richard B. Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Homer Raster, Dr. Joseph Kauders, Mr. & Mrs. Erick Kelly, Mrs. Susan E. Kent, Mrs. Gertrude B. Kidder, Mrs. Alfred, II Kittredge, Mrs. Wheaton, Jr. Knight, Russell W. Knowlton, Mrs. Carroll B. 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 E. 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. (In memory of Sarah E. Little & Harland G. Little) Little, Mr. & Mrs. David B. Little, Philip, Jr. 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. Mason, Mrs. Henry L. Mayer, Mr. & Mrs. John Melzar, Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Merrill, Mrs. Anna M. Merrill, E. Gertrude Merrill, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Merrill, Mrs. Walter M. DONORS 233 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. (In memory of R. Darroch Mc- Glennon) Motley, E. Preble Moulton, Robert T., Jr. Munroe, Mrs. William B. Murdock, Kenneth B. Murphy, Francis, Jr. Murray, Mrs. Albert C. 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, Carl M. 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, Dr. Albert E. Parkhurst, Winnifrid Parrot, Mrs. Edward G. Patch, Mr. & Mrs. Roy K. Pattee, Mrs. Arthur L. Patterson, Henry A. 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. Riches, Mrs. George E. Robbins, Mrs. Chandler, II 234 ESSEX INSTITUTE Robinson, Mrs. Beverly R. Robinson, Mrs. John 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. & Mrs. 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. Sedgwick, Mrs. Ellery Sharf, Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Shatswell, Alfred I. 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. Stahle, 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 Sutton, Harry, Jr. 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. Waller, Adm. J. B. W. Ward, Mrs. Rosamond de Laittre Warner, Mrs. Frederick L. (In memory of Mrs. Alexander Hutchins) Warren, Mrs. Bayard Warren, Mrs. Samuel D., Sr. Watson, Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Weems, Mrs. F. Carrington Welch, Mr. & 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. Weston Historical Society, Inc. Wetherbee, Nathaniel G. Wheatland, Mr. & Mrs. David P. DONORS 235 Wheatland, Stephen Wheeler, Mrs. Howard Whipple, Charles A. White, Henry Wade Whitehill, Mrs. Walter M. 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. Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Percival W. Winship, William H. Winthrop, Clara B. Wirth, Mrs. Jacob Wiswall, Mrs. Richard H. Wolcott, Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Woodbury, Alice Choate Woodbury, Stephen E. Wooldredge, Mrs. John Xanthaky, Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Yerrinton, Margaret J. Young, Mrs. Charles M. Young, Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. DONORS TO THE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC HOUSES Allen, Eleanor Bradford Balch, Elizabeth, Estate of Bogle, Mrs. Stanley Bradford, Mrs. Robert Bradlee, Mrs. Sargent Broadhead, Eleanor Broadhead, Elizabeth Budrose, Philip A. Butler, Warren H. Chamberlain, Samuel Chamberlain, Mrs. Samuel Clark, DeWitt Scoville, Estate of Clark, Mrs. Sanford S. Clinch, Ethel H., Estate of Codwise, Mrs. H. E. Cohen, Eva S. Collins, Francis X. Conley, Ruth V. Cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Dik, Mrs. Willard B. Dove, Helen Gardner, Estate of Fay, S. Prescott French, Flora Goldsmith, Gertrude B. Goodhue, Albert Hamlin, Mrs. Lot M., Jr. Hardenbergh, Mrs. Clarence Havlin, Mrs. Arthur C. Hodges, Mrs. F. G. Holt, Mrs. Carlyle H. Ingraham, Mrs. Franc D. Juvelis, Steven Kent, Mrs. Gertrude B. Lee, Mrs. Ronald C. Leverett, John E. Leverett, Mrs. John M. Leverett, Theodore W. Luquer, Lea S. Lynn Historical Society Marblehead Historical Society Mason, Mrs. Frederick Moore, Mrs. Harold Morse, Sadie May, Estate of McQuesten, George E. National Grand Bank of Marblehead Newton, Mrs. James F. Nichols, Mrs. George Peabody, Mrs. G. E. Philbrick, Mrs. John H. Pierce, John F. Pratt, Mrs. Kenneth Pratt, Mrs. Stuart Putnam, G. Endicott Ritchie, Mrs. Rebecca P. Simpkins, Nathaniel S., Ill Smith, Gordon Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster Spang, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Voorhees, Margaretta R., Estate of Williams, Mrs. Aubrey A. Wright, John Youngman, Mrs. William S. 236 ESSEX INSTITUTE DONORS TO THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY Adams, Frank P., Sr. American Antiquarian Society American Institute of Architects Bagley, Francis Baker Library Barre Publishers Bates, Hon. William H. Beadle, Walter J. Beechey, Mrs. Robert J., Sr. Belknap, Carroll Y. Bixby, Donald Blaisdell Publishing Company Bohl, R. W. Bradlee, Frederick J. Broadhead, Eleanor Brooking, Mrs. William H. Brown, Lawrence B. Burke, Kathryn Burnett, Frances Butterfield, Roger Caliga, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Captain William Driver Memorial Fund Committee Carr, Ann Cate, Mary R. Cave, Alfred A. Chenery, Augustine J. Clark, C. E. Frazer, Jr. Collins, Dr. J. Richard Colonial Williamsburg Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Congregational Church of Topsfield Connelly, Mrs. Charles J. Cousins, Willard C. Cowe, John Crandall, Rev. Frank B. Currier, Dudley S. Danforth, M. Corinne Davis, Mildred J. Dee, Harry Dee, Mrs. Robert de Laittre, Rosamond DeLello, Mrs. Alfred J. Dik, Catherine C. T. Donnell, Robert P. Dummer, William Durham Historic Association Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P. Endicott Junior College Essex North (Congregational) As¬ sociation Essex North Women’s (Congrega¬ tional) Fellowship Evans, Nancy Goyne Fay, S. Prescott Fay, Mrs. S. Prescott Field, Charles Manning Foley, Daniel J. Fonda, Douglass C., Jr. Ford, Kenneth M. Frost, Chester E. Gavenda, David T. The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Inc. G. W. Blunt White Library George Braziller, Inc. Goodhue, Albert Grilley, Virginia Hammond, James R. Hardenbergh, Mrs. Clarence Harstad, Peter T. Harvey, Phyllis E. Hosford, Robert C. Humelsine, Carlisle H. Jewett, Everett D. Johnson, Alden P. Jones, Mrs. Alice Hanson Kanai, Madoka Keene, C. Milburn, Jr. Kenniston, Mrs. Hayward Kuell, Mrs. David H. F. Larter, Mrs. Robert E. Lash, David C. Lawson, Mrs. Ralph Lehman, Anthony L. Leonard, Edward Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon Little, David B. Loomis, Capt. F. Kent Lynn Historical Society Manchester Yacht Club Mansur, Frank L. Martin, Mrs. Waldo McIntosh, Walter H. Merrick, Velda B. Meserole, Harrison T. Mesle, Richard L. Miller, Royce W. Montgomery, Charles F. Moore, Mrs. George A. Moulton, Robert T., Jr. National Archives and Records Services Naumkeag Trust Company Naval Supply Depot, Philadelphia New Canaan Historical Society DONORS 2-37 Newcomb & Gauss Co. Newcomen Society in North Amer¬ ica Nichols, William I. North Shore Commnity College Norton, Mrs. Arthur O’Brien Vincent P. Old Sturbridge Village Oliver, Andrew Olmstead, Anna Wetherill Osgood, Herbert T. Owen, Barbara J. Payson, Gilbert R. Payson, Mrs. Gilbert R. Pearce, Marvin J., Sr. Perley, Eleanor Pierce, John F. Porter, Winston S. Proper, David R. Rantoul, Miss Harriet C. Ray, Gordon N. Raymond, Louvera H. Raymond, Samuel E. Revolutionary War Bicentennial Commission Reynolds, Edwin D. Reynolds, Frank Rhode Island Historical Society Rice, Mrs. Thomas G. Richards, Dorothy Holt Richardson, E. P. Ritchie, Mary M. Ritchie, Mrs. Rebecca P. Sachs, Hilda D. Salem Chamber of Commerce Salem Evening News Salem Public Library Sandrof, Ivan Sawtell, Clement C. Seamans, Mrs. Richard D. Sessions, Barbara Shadwell, Wendy J. Shattuck, Henry L. Shepley, Hayden R. Skillen, Glenn B. Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia Smith, Evelyn Rich Smith, Mary Byers Spencer, Rae M. Stensrud, Mrs. Clarence B. Stone, W. Clement Swasey, John Moriarty Tatham, David Thresher, Mrs. Ralph L. Topsfield Historical Society Town of Essex Sesquicentennial Committee Trustees of the Peabody Museum of Salem Upton, Eleanor S. Usrey, Miriam L. Van Vleet, Clarke Vinovskis, Maris A. Walker, Harold S. Walker, Philip L. Warner, Mrs. Frederick L. Wheatland, Stephen Wheeler, Joseph L. Whipple, Henry Burdette Zollo, Richard P. 238 ESSEX INSTITUTE DONORS TO SPECIAL PROJECTS Alden, Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. Aldrich, Mrs. Talbot Allice, Harry M. Alpers, Moses Ames, Mrs. Robert R. Anonymous Baker, John A. Baker, Patrick N. Ballou, James H. Ballou, Dr. John B. Bieser, Charles D. Bixby, Donald Bowden, W. Hammond Bradlee, Sargent (In memory of Frederick J. Bradlee) Broadhead, Eleanor Broadhead, Elizabeth Brookfield, Mrs. William L. Burbidge, John R. Burns, Mrs. Wm. Russell Clark, C. E. Frazer, Jr. Clark, Mrs. Lincoln Clark, Mrs. Terry Creighton Family Foundation Connolly, Stephen J., Ill (In mem¬ ory of Frederick J. Bradlee) Curtis, Harriet S. Davisson, William I. de Laittre, Mrs. Karl Dethier, Mrs. Charles Dexter, Mrs. Lewis Dodge, Alice L. C. (In memory of Harriet Lamb & Frances Lamb Enright) Dugan, Dennis J. Early American Industries Edens, Mrs. Joseph, Jr. Fahs, Mrs. Raymond Z., Jr. (In memory of William Blake Nichols) Foster, Mrs. Reginald, Jr. (In memory of Frederick J. Brad¬ lee) Fulton, Mrs. John F. Gal, Joseph J. Goodhue, Albert Hammond, Mr. & Mrs. James R. Hardenbergh, Mrs. Clarence Hardenbergh, Collis Morgan Hardenbergh, Esther Hardenbergh, Nancy N. Harrison, Mrs. Alfred C. Hart, George H., Jr. Hodgkinson, Mr. & Mrs. Harold D. Hoyt, Alfred O. (In memory of Frederick J. Bradlee) Jewell, Margaret H., Estate of Johnson, Edward C., Ill Ladies Committee of the Essex In¬ stitute Lester, Mrs. Herbert S. Little, Mrs. Bertram K. Longino, Mrs. Samuel W. Lynn Historical Society McKelvey, Mrs. Robert S., Ill Mason, Mrs. Henry L. Merrill, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Miller, Bruce Mogan, Charles F., Jr. Murray Enterprises Nichols, Benjamin Peirce Nichols, Mrs. George Nichols, Dr. George, Jr. Nichols, John D., Jr. Nichols, Millicent Nichols, Wadsworth Nichols, Mrs. William B. Nichols, William F. North Andover Historical Society Osgood, Edward H. Page, Jane Page, Mr. & Mrs. Walter H. Phillips, Charlotte Palmer Founda¬ tion Phillips, Stephen Robinson, Mrs. William H. Rogers, Mrs. Horatio Salem Marine Society Saltonstall, Hon. Leverett Sexton, Markham W. Shelby, Mrs. Joseph Bryan Smith, Mr. & Mrs. George W. Smith, Mary Silver Storrow, James J. Tapley, Charles S. Tyler, Ruth Upton, King Vose, S. Morton NECROLOGY 1969 - 1970 Date Elected Date Deceased Barry, Miss Edith Cleaves Apr. 11, 1967 1969 Beveridge, Mrs. Albert J. Aug. 20, 1935 May 28, 1970 Bradlee, Frederick J. Mar. 12, 1957 Apr. 28, 1970 Brown, F. Thurlow Jan. 11, 1955 1968 Chapman, John Alden Apr. 5, 1909 Dec. 29, 1969 Doble, Frank Currier June 12, 1945 Dec. 30, 1969 Farnham, Bertram C. Oct. 6, 1969 1970 Grush, Mrs. Charles Flint Sept. 14, 1948 Nov. 2, 1969 Harris, Miss Bessom Smith May 1, 1922 Nov. 5, 1969 Herrick, Robert Webster Sept. 11, 1945 Mar. 10, 1970 Higginson, Francis Lee Jan. 5, 1920 1969 Holmes, Prof. J. Welfred Feb. 2, 1961 1970 Knowlton, Carroll B. Jan. 4, 1962 Sept. 25, 1969 Leonard, Mr. Laurence B. June 8, 1965 1968 Poor, Roger A. Apr. 10, 1945 Jan. 24, 1970 Seamans, Mrs. Robert Channing Jan. 8, 1935 Sept. 29, 1969 Storrow, Mrs. James J. Sept. 10, 1957 Sept. 25, 1969 Sutton, Harry Apr. 7> i93o 1969 Thorndike, Miss Alice May i7> 1955 Sept. 25, 1969 Thorndike, Mrs. Joseph J. Jan. i4> 1947 Jan. 10, 1970 Tucker, Mrs. Randolph F. Apr. 1968 Nov. 20, 1969 Warren, Mrs. Bayard Aug. 20, 1935 Nov. 6, 1969 Webster, Mrs. Edwin S. June in 1957 1969 Wheeler, Alexander Jan. 8, 1935 Jan. 1968 239 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Richard P. Gildrie has been appointed Assistant Professor of History at Austin Peay State College in Clarksville, Tenn., and is currently writing a dissertation titled “History of a Cove¬ nant Community: Salem 1629-1667” for the University of Virginia. James A. Thorpe is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an instructor of history at Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point. Ronald G. Walters has been appointed Instructor in History at the Johns Hopkins University. / / WELLS BINDERY, INC. SEP 1979 WALTHAM,. MASS. 02154 |I1 mwm fill