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PROCEEDINGS OP THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.



Committee of Publication,

ALEXANDER MCKENZIE.

CHARLES C. SMITH.

EDWARD STANWOOD.



PROCEEDINGS

Mac?eos pst?rical Stockte

Second Series.?Vol. XX.

1906, 1907.

?Publis?je?i at tfje Cfjarge of tfje ILofoell JFuniu

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY MDCCCCVII.



SEn?wrs?tg Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.



CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface . v

List of Illustrations. xi

Officers elected April 11, 1907. xiii

Resident Members. xiv

Honorary and Corresponding Members. xvi

Members Deceased. xviii

JANUARY MEETING, 1906.

Resignation of Rev. Dr. Young as Recording Secretary

. . 1

Memorial for the Preservation of the Frigate Constitution . . 3

Letter by Charles H. Dalton on United States Postage Stamps. 6

Paper b\- Edward Stanwood on The Massachusetts Election

in 1806. 12

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1906.

Tribute by the President to John C. Palfrey ...... 22

Letter from John Bigelow relative to a Statuette of Franklin 27

Paper by Franklin B. Sanborn on St. John de Cr?vec ur . 32

MARCH MEETING, 1906.

Paper by the President on the book-plate of John Adams . . 84

Paper by Thomas L. Livermore on the Appomattox Campaign 87

Paper by Charles K. Bolton on McCrady's Opinion of

General Greene. 112



viii CONTENTS.

PAGE

Memoir of Mellen Chamberlain, by Henry W. Haynes . . 119

Memoir of Theodore Lyman, by Charles Francis Adams . 147

Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., by Charles Francis

Adams. 178

ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL, 1906.

Report of the Council. 201

Report of the Treasurer . .. . . . 209

Report of the Auditing Committee. 226

Report of the Librarian. 226

Report of the Cabinet-Keeper. 228

Report of the Committee on the Library and Cabinet . . . 231

Officers elected. 231

Address by the President on the Unveiling of a Bust of

James Savage. 232

MAY MEETING, 1906.

Paper by Henry G. Pearson on the Emancipation Concert in

Music Hall, Boston, Jan. 1, 1863. 247

Paper by the President on Williams's " Rise and Fall of the Model Republic". 253

Letters of William Duane, communicated by Worthington C.

Ford. 257

JUNE MEETING, 1906.

Tributes to Carl Schurz : ?

By the President. 395

By Charles E. Norton. 402

By Moorfield Storey. 403

By Bliss Perry. 407

Memoir of Stephen Salisbury by Nathaniel Paine . . . 412



CONTENTS. IX

OCTOBER MEETING, 1906.

PAGE

Announcement of the deaths of Rev. Dr. Young and Rev. Dr.

Slafter. 421

Tribute to Dr. Young by Charles C. Smith. 422

Tribute to Dr. Slafter by Henry W. Haynes. 425

Paper by James Schouler on President Johnson's Papers . . 427

NOVEMBER MEETING, 1906.

Paper by Josiah P. Quincy on Cotton Mather and the Super normal in New England History.439

Paper by the President on Lord Granville and the Attitude

of Great Britain toward the United States during the Civil

War.453

Paper by Daniel H. Chamberlain on A Third Bunker's Hill

in England.474

Paper by Daniel H. Chamberlain supplementary to his paper

on The Historical Conception of the United States Con

stitution and Union.477

DECEMBER MEETING, 1906.

Paper by Andrew McF. Davis on Jackson's degree of LL.D.

from Harvard College. 490

Documents relating to Slavery communicated by Albert B.

Hart. 512

Paper by Thomas Minns on the Detroit Bank. 521

Memoir of James Elliot Cabot by T. W. Higginson .... 526

JANUARY MEETING, 1907.

Letters of Thomas Hutchinson communicated by Grenville

H. Norcross.535

Memoir of Charles Sumner by Moorfield Storey .... 538



X CONTENTS.

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1907. PAGE

Paper by the President on the Centenary of Robert E. Lee . 550

Paper by Daniel H. Chamberlain on the Stevens Catalogue

Index . 556

Paper by Charles H. Hart on Paul Revere's First Ride . . 560

Paper by William R. Thater on Longfellow our National

Poet. 564

Paper by Bliss Perry on Longfellow's Career and Reputation 569

Paper by the President on Longfellow as an Historical Poet 573

MARCH MEETING, 1907.

Remarks by William Everett on the Want of Biographies of

the Provincial Period.587 Memoir of Edmund F. Slafter, communicated by William

Lawrence.591

List of Donors to the Library.597

Index.601



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

Bust of James Savage.Frontispiece

Residence of St. John de Cr?vec ur. 20

Statuette of Benjamin Franklin. 27

Book-Plate of John Adams. 84

Portrait of Mellen Chamberlain. 119

Portrait of Theodore Lyman. 147

Portrait of Robert C. Winthrop, Jr. 178

Portrait of Stephen Salisbury.0 . 412

Portrait of J. Elliot Cabot. 526

Portrait of Charles Sumner. 538

Portrait of Edmund F. Slafter. 591

[xi]



OFFICERS OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

Elected April 11, 1907.

|}resib*nt. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, LL.D.Lincoln.

W?Ct-^?tBUtVlU.

SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN, LL.D.Boston. JAMES FORD RHODES, LL.D.Boston.

$Ucori>mg Sctretarg, EDWARD STAN WOOD, Litt.D.Brookline.

Corresponding Smttarg* HENRY WILLIAMSON HAYNES, A.M.Boston.

feasurtr.

ARTHUR LORD, A.B.Plymouth.

Jfibrarimt.

SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN, LL.D.Boston.

Cabinet-Jfoeper* GRENVILLE HOWLAND NORCROSS, LL.B.Boston.

Pembers at $arge of t\t CotmriL

THOMAS LEONARD LIVERMORE, A.M. . . . Jamaica Plain.

SAMUEL SAVAGE SHAW, LL.B.Boston. NATHANIEL PAINE, A.M.Worcester.

EDWARD H. HALL, D.D.Cambridge.

ROGER B. M?RRIMA^ Ph.D.Cambridge.

A dditional Member of the Council.

MELVILLE M. BIGELOW, LL.D.Cambridge,

[xiii]

