Boston Atheneum. Repositories. ATHEN/EUM ITEMS Library The Boston Letter from Athenxum No. 33 FEBRUARY 1945 Healy and the Dorrs T HE late George Bucknam Dorr, who died at Bar Harbor last August at the age of ninety, had been a proprietor of the Athenzum for fifty years. The share that stood in his name had belonged, before it became his, to his father, Charles Hazen Dorr, for the forty-nine years preceding 1894 From 1822, when it was issued, to 1844 it belonged to C. H. Dorr's father, Samuel Dorr, a Trustee of the Library and a donor to its resources. A portrait of Samuel Dorr, painted by George P. A. Healy, was one of the inherited possessions of his grandson, George Bucknam Dorr, in whose memory his surviving repre- sentatives are now presenting it to the Athenzeum. Quite apart from its considerable merit as a work of art, this picture is a most welcome accession, for quite apart from the immediate uses of the Athenium as a repository of books, this Library is also a shrine of associations. George Dorr himself was a man of wide interests, ranging from philosophy and the occult, a field in which he was a fellow-worker with William James, to the open spaces of nature. To his initiative and energy the very existence of the Acadia National Park on the coast of Maine is largely due. To the end of his days, he identified himself with this dream come true. Bar Harbor became his residence, but whether there or in Boston, whether in person or through the Post-Office, he turned naturally and habitually to the Athenxum for books related to his interests. No living person can remember the Samuel Dorr of Healy's portrait. The George Dorr in whose memory it will hang in the Athenium will remain for some years to come a distinctive figure remembered by many. In another hundred years, assuming the heav- ens are not to fall, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dorrs who cared for the Athe- nxum will still be commemorated here. The ivy of memory is a long-lived and hardy plant. It flourishes in many works of art bequeathed from time to time to the Athenzum, and is set off throughout our building by the beauties of color constantly renewed in the flowers that speak alike for a memory and for a living devotion to the Library. Arms, the Man, and the Book U NDER the heading "Books for Remembrance" there appeared in that excellent column of "Topics" in a recent issue of the New York Times a few paragraphs re- lating to a small public library at Warrenton, Virginia. When the "Life and Letters of Walter H. Page" appeared in 1922, the library received a copy of the book, as a gift, in memory of a young soldier of World War I. Since that time other single books have been others in New York. These names represent the highest standards of American opinion and practice in the field of books. They speak SO eloquently for themselves that there is no need to extol them. The Statement takes vigorous exception to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts upholding the ban of "Strange Fruit" by a lower court. It should be widely reprinted, read, and discussed. The publishers "do not believe that this opinion reflects the adult and intelligent opinion of Massachusetts." Nor do they feel that any "change in statute or procedure alone can change the situation. Change can come only if the Courts of Massachusetts are persuaded by the citizens that it is right that they should be permitted to read the truth whether it be pleasant or unpleasant." In this miniature publication the Statement cannot possibly be printed in full. It is only to be hoped that these few words may lead readers who have missed it to look it up and give it their serious attention. It is "recommended reading" especially for those neo-Puritans who would revive the rigidities of three hundred years ago. Untaught by Emily Post THE Athenxum is only incidentally, one may almost say accidentally, a repository of autographs. From time to time, however, its collections are enriched by gifts of papers relating to its own life and that of persons closely associated with it. Such a gift, drawn from the papers of the late George B. Dorr, has recently been made. Of special historic interest for the Library are manuscript letters on Athenxum affairs from Nathaniel Bowditch to Thomas Handasyd Perkins and Thomas Wren Ward, written between 1826 and 1839. Every such bit of record, contributing to the Library's own history, is particularly welcome. In this new acquisition there are, besides, a number of letters and notes, from a va- riety of local and visiting figures of distinction. The interest of most of these is related to the social life of Boston when the nineteenth was passing into the twentieth century. Sometimes they throw light upon a memorable personality. One of them is in answer to an invitation to dinner and to spend the night at the house of George Dorr and his mother in Boston. It is dated Quincy, I January, 1908, and is signed "William Everett," and be- gins by expressing doubt of his ability, on physical grounds, to accept the invitation. "I shall come," he writes, "if I can do it without an effort," and he proceeds, in character- istic vein, to utter sentiments which some have felt but few have expressed SO frankly: "I do not know how your house is organized; but I pray you do not let me suffer from the officiousness of a body servant or valet de chambre. The English servant who seizes your bag, unstraps & opens it, takes out the contents, disposes of them as he thinks proper, comes into your room while you are in the drawing room, carries off half your clothes the Lord knows where,-then wakes you up with some horrible bath per- formances and what not, is in my view a patent engine to make a man thoroughly un- comfortable. I can wait on myself, having done so for fifty odd years, much better than any other man; and I want all such attendants to keep their hands off my property, and their feet out of my room. I don't mind having a rap on the door a reasonable time be- fore breakfast; but otherwise I desire to be let alone. "Yours very faithfully, "WILLIAM EVERETT." Nov. Athenaeum Items. #35 (1945). 8 32 It may not be commonly known that the Athenxum holds one of the world's finest collections of the sculpture of John Frazee. In honor of the Athenxum's recent acquisition of a wonderful portrait of the sculptor by Asher Durand, Curator of Collections Michael Wentworth has produced a labor of love for this issue of Items, an essay about Frazee, the villainous Col. Trumbull, and the flowering of fine art in the young American Republic. In view of the Athenxum's important collection of Frazee sculpture, it is entirely suitable that he be honored with one of Mr. Went- worth's astute artistic commentaries. "Tonight, I was in Athens 23 When the aspiring sculptor John Frazee first saw casts after the antique at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York, he was struck dumb with a lasting emotion. Years later he remembered: "When I entered the saloon of antique statues, what could describe my feelings at that instant! Even at this very moment I feel the sensation thrilling through me." He applied to the president of the Academy, Col. John Trumbull, for permission to draw from the works in the collection-a discipline considered essential to a sculptor's education-whereupon the colonel dismissed his request with the remark that "sculpture would not be wanted here for a century." It was a prediction "singularly unwarranted," as Henry Tuckerman later noted in a pioneering study of American artists, "by subsequent facts." When Trumbull made his remark in the 1820s, no American trained sculptor had worked in stone (Frazee would be the first), but by the time Tuckerman wrote in 1867, the country had de- veloped what can only be described as an obsession for marble sculpture, and a mar- moreal white silence ruled the land. John Frazee (1790-1852) blazed the trail, and his career was inexorably bound up with the early growth of the Boston Athenxum collections: of the baker's dozen portrait busts he executed in marble, seven were commissioned by the trustees and represent his most sustained accomplishment as a sculptor. They remain here, one of the glories of the collection, and one of the proudest examples of enlightened patronage in early nineteenth-century American art. Frazee became a New Yorker in the 1820s, and so his career was also bound up with that of the arts in New York. He soon came in contact with Col. Trumbull's American Academy, and with his opinionated views and passionate nature it was inevitable that he become embroiled in its affairs and those of its dictatorial president. The emphatically well-connected John Trumbull (1756-1843) was an artist malgré lui if ever there was one. A son of one governor of Connecticut and the brother of another, a Harvard graduate, and one of Washington's officers in the Revolution, he was not encouraged to pursue a career in the arts, but having persisted in what even he suspected was a foolish decision, was not slow to take advantage of an ac- cident of birth to establish himself at the social forefront of American painting, Regetter of the Proprietors of the boston Athenoorom From its Foundation to 12/31/97. Hathi Trust, Carbridge: BA, 413k 1898 287-289= View of the water celes Boton Canon, 1848. 700 151-7532 Grays House, Francis Cally and John Chipman 182; 154# T.W. Ward proprietor of brotherserm - 1922. Charles h. Field -1858 179 Samuel Dorr 11 u II u 1922 C. H. L' " " a " 1945 G. B. /1 " 21 u a 1894 John S. Doverport. 1867. Augusta Kimball Horton 1876 ? 270+ *T.U Word, Sr. Propretor, 1844. John Gallija word, 11 7.1844. (1822-1956) * T.W. Wend on 1859 Theo. Hastage 7 " 1886 Charles See Shackford," 11 1886 (1875-7895) Robert S. Peabody 1894 271 T. W. Ward 11 1844 George h Ward 1844 Puillippe Wolf 1878. you THE TRUSTED Boston Athenarum 111 Have received 4 Bourlitch letters, 1.120- and typed copies, letters of ojohn Andrews, gening and 44 other letters AGIPT from Mers. Reichard Walden Hall Yor which on behalfrofthe Institution they return Boston Dec. 15,1945 Genger Labor President Eluior Engay Ustcals Tibmarian. Woodl A-61. THE ATHENAEUM CENTENARY The Influence and History of The Boston Athenaeum from 1807-1907, With a Record of Its Officers and Benefactors and The Library Reference Series A Complete List of Proprietors Lee Ash General Editor By the Staff of THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM GREGG PRESS Boston 1972 This is a complete photographic reprint of a work first published in Boston by the Boston Athenaeum in 1907. Reproduced from an original copy in the Columbia University Libraries. First Gregg Press edition published 1972. Printed on permanent/durable acid-free paper in The United States of America. THE INFLUENCE AND HISTORY OF THE BOSTON ATHENEUM Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Boston Athenaeum. The Athenaeum centenary. (Library reference series) Reprint of the 1907 ed., which was issued as no. 3 of the Robert Charles Billings Fund publications. Bibliography: p. [91]-106. I. Title. II. Series: Boston Athenaeum. Robert Charles Billings Fund. Publications, no. 3. Z733.B7413 1972 027'2'74461 72-10173 ISBN 0-8398-0195-5 viii PREFACE the chief Benefactors of the institution, except by admit- ting more portraits than would be possible without far exceeding the sum set aside for the publication of the volume. Contents No portrait of John Bromfield has been discovered, and this must be a lasting cause for regret to every reader PAGE who has seen Mr. Bromfield's name within the covers I. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ATHENAUM ON LITER- of Athenxum books. The portrait of Miss Hannah ATURE IN AMERICA I Adams, from the original in the Trustees' Room, is, as By BARRETT WENDELL Emerson might have said, II. THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ATHE- " Its own excuse for being." NAUM HISTORY. A CHRONOLOGICAL SKETCH 13 In many cases statements here will be found to differ By THE LIBRARIAN from those in other books. It would be too much to III. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN THE ATHENAUM 57 say that these are never errors; but by a careful study IV. PERMANENT FUNDS OF THE ATHEN AUM 67 of manuscript sources many corrections have been made. V. CHIEF GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO THE ATHE- To illustrate: Daniel Webster subscribed to the fund to NAUM 73 purchase Washington's library, and his name has always VI. PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE ATHENAUM 89 appeared in the list of contributors, although he never VII. FOUNDERS OF THE ATHENAUM 107 made payment. Joseph Coolidge, who subscribed and VIII. OFFICERS 113 did pay, has never before received recognition in the IX. I'ROPRIETORS 123 list. X. MEMBERS OF THE STAFF 215 The view of Scollay's Buildings is reproduced by INDEX 225 permission of F. E. Belcher, Esq., and that of the Amory house by permission of Edward W. McGlenen, Esq. To several others acknowledgments are due for aid or for helpful suggestions, and especially to Mr. Charles N. Baxter, who has contributed much to the accuracy of the volume. 70 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM ington from Henry Stevens, of London ; and the Athenxum contributed $500.00. The sum remain- ing after the purchase of the books ($125.20) was enlarged in 1858 by the gift of $1,000.00 from the executors of Thomas Dowse, this sum to be used to preserve and catalogue the Library and to build up a collection of Washingtoniana. Principal $1024.79 SUBSCRIPTION FOR SHARES IN 1853. - Voted by the Proprietors, January 19, 1852, " that the Trustees be requested, if possible, to procure subscribers for not less than Four Hundred shares at Three Hundred dollars each." " Capital to be kept invested and in- come only to be used at discretion." Principal $102,300.00 Gain 12,984.98 APPLETON FUND. - Manufacturing stocks, valued at $25,060.00, received in 1853 from the executors of the will of Samuel Appleton, a Proprietor, the income for the purchase of books. Principal $30,515.91 WARD FUND. - The bequest in 1858 of $5,000.00 by Thomas Wren Ward, Treasurer of the Athenxum, the income for the purchase of books. Principal $5,000.00 BOWDITCH FUND. - The bequest in 1861 of $2,000.00 games Perkins by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, a Trustee, the in- come for the purchase of books. Principal $2,227.92 76 THE BOSTON ATHENAUM GIFTS AND BEQUESTS 77 [Pliny] Cutler & John D. Williams John Parker Subscribers to "the superb bust of Washington" executed by [Daniel] Hammond Henderson Inches J. C. Gray Trentanove for the Athenium, "as a testimony of their best wishes George W. Brimmer for the prosperity of that elegant repository of specimens of the Fine Arts." 1823 Augustus Thorndike Casts of ancient statues. 1823 52 gentlemen $4,600.00, for a lecture Wm B. Swett Jos. Hall J. Putnam building. Jn T. Apthorp F. Dexter D. P. Parker David Sears F. C. Head R. D. Tucker The Subscribers, desirous of furnishing the means of literary & Tho. Lee, Jr R. G. Shaw I. Winslow Wm Wells S. Parkman, Jr Joshua Davis scientific instruction, as well as of encouraging Native Artists in Sculp- Wm Payne Jona. Amory Joseph Tilden ture & painting," contributed money to erect a building. John E. Rollins G. Ticknor H. G. Otis Lowell, Josiah Quincy, Wm S. Shaw, Josiah Bradlee, and Lewis Wm Lyman N. Hale Wm Pratt W. H. Eliot Josiah Bradlee John Pickens Tappan were the Committee. W. H. Prescott Is. Munson T. L. W[inthrop] J. Richards F. C. Gray Saml Dorr Israel Thorndike C. R. Codman J. McLean T. H. P[erkins] J. W. Boott John Heard, Jr P. C. Brooks Nath. Amory Sam. Swett W. Sawyer J. A. Lowell John Bumstead T. H. Perkins Thomas W. Ward Henderson Inches H. G. Rice John Lowell Natl Goddard P. T. Jackson H. A. S. Dearborn Benj. D. Greene by B. Welles B. Russell Jona. Davis Jeffrey Richardson Gardr Greene N. Appleton C. R. Codman Francis J. Oliver J. P. Bradlee Josiah Bradlee Joseph P. Bradlee David Sears Saml Swett Geo. Bond T. B. Wales Sam. Whitwell, Jr William Phillips Wm Sturgis Warren Dutton S. Whitwell, Jr Jos. Head John Bryant Josiah Quincy George C. Shattuck Nathl Appleton B. Seaver Thomas H. Perkins, Jr John Richards Lewis Tappan John Randall Isaac P Davis Caleb Adams Thomas Lamb Eben. Francis Amos Lawrence William H. Prescott George Searle Lewis Tappan Saml May Theodore Lyman, Junr John Tappan Geo. Ticknor P. T. Jackson S. H. Walley Jona. Chapman John Dorr Charles Tappan Benjn Bussey Henry Lunt Jonathan Phillips Josiah Marshall David Henshaw John Lowell Francis C. Gray Theodore Lyman, Jr Edward Phillips John Parker Thomas Wigglesworth Henry Rice J. C. Gray Henry Cabot Thomas Wigglesworth Thomas W. Ward Rd D. Tucker Isaac Mansfield Wm Prescott I. Sargent S. C. Gray W. R. Gray Israel Munson Edward J. Lowell by Willm Pratt C. Bradbury S. D. Harris H. Gray Saml G Perkins Chs Barnard J. Lowell his Guardian John Belknap Amos Lawrence John Tappan R. G. Shaw T. B. Wales Timothy Williams I. Thorndike Abbott Lawrence Wm Appleton N. Amory Wm Lawrence Henry Codman 1824 William Foster Painting: Jacob at the T. Williams Sam. Lawrence H. M. Hayes Jos. Quincy Edward Tuckerman Well. Attributed to Mu- Eben. Appleton J. Hubbard Caleb Andrews John Lowell, Jr rillo, and also to Titian. B. Joy J. Richardson Jos. Coolidge G. Brooks R. D. S[hepherd] 1824 Henry Pickering Portrait of Benjamin West, by C. R. Leslie. 1826 David Sears 73 volumes. 1826 7 gentlemen $1,650.00, for the purchase 1824 John Cheverus 52 volumes. of scientific transactions. 104 gentlemen $104.00, for a bust of 1824 Subscribers to purchase Transactions of Foreign Societies and Washington, by R. Trenta- other similar works of the first importance to the progress of knowl- nove. edge February 9th, 1826." 78 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM Nathl Bowditch Thomas W. Ward James Perkins Geo. Ticknor Francis C. Gray Israel Thorndike T. H. Perkins 1826 Thomas Handasyd Perkins $8,000.00 for a lecture room. 1826 James Perkins, the Younger $8,000.00, unrestricted. 1826 76 gentlemen $10,240.00, unrestricted. The first two gentlemen each gave $1,000,00. Whereas, the Honourable Thomas H. Perkins, by a letter dated March 30, 1826, has generously declared that he will con- tribute the sum of Eight Thousand dollars towards the completion of the Lecture Room now contracted for, provided a like sum is sub- scribed without the circle of his family connexions for the general uses of the Corporation, before the first of November next': And whereas, James Perkins, Esquire, by a letter dated March 30, 1826, has offered to give the ' further sum of Eight Thousand dollars, provided the same sum is raised from individuals, besides the Eight Thousand dollars proposed to be raised to meet the offer of Mr. T. H. Perkins' Now therefore, we the subscribers do agree to take the number of shares against our names respectively." BOSTON, April 5, 1826. William Phillips Pliny Cutler B. Joy P. C. Brooks Wm S. Shaw John C. Howard Ebenezer Francis Lewis Tappan Charles Taylor John Lowell (by Josiah Bradlee Joseph Coolidge N. Bowditch) Geo. C. Shattuck Rob. G. Shaw John Tappan Josiah Quincy John C. Jones Thomas Wigglesworth Daniel Hammond David W. Child James Jackson H. Inches Daniel P. Parker P. T. Jackson Joseph P. Bradlee Wm H. Eliot Chas Jackson Horace Gray Jonathan Mason Amos Lawrence I. Thorndike, Jr Chs Torrey Abbott Lawrence E. H. Robbins, Jr Benj. Wiggin Wm Lawrence Edward Tuckerman Wm Sawyer W. R. Gray J. P. Rice Joseph W. Revere Wm Prescott Francis Parkman Saml Whitwell, Jr Wm Sturgis John Amory Geo. Bond Saml Dorr Joseph Head John D. Williams R. D. Tucker Saml Salisbury John Belknap Ebenr T. Andrews Thos Williams J. Putnam Joshua Clapp (by James T. Austin J. Hall N. Bowditch) Thos Bartlett W. H. Prescott your Obel In 94 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM 1877, No. 1-3; 1878, No. 4-20; 1879, No. 21-40; 1880, No. 41-60; 1881, No. 61-80; 1882, No. 81-100; 1883, No. IOI- 140; 1884, No. 141-160; 1885, No. 161-180; 1886, No. 181- 200; 1887, No. 201-220; 1888, No. 221-235; 1889, No, 236-253; 1890, No. 254-276; 1891, No. 277-295; 1892, No. 296-319; 1893, No. 320-330; 1894, No: 331-342; 1895. No. 343-352; 1896, No. 353-354 The title is abbreviated with No. 3 to the heading : Boston Athe- nxum. Additions. 2d ser." In 1887 the following title-page was printed for a volume containing Nos. I-200 bound together: "Boston Athenxum. Additions to the library 1877-86. Boston : 1887." The numbers were issued at first as often as there were "titles enough to fill a sheet." In 1882 and thereafter they were published more or less regularly at intervals varying at different times from a week to a month. The list contained many annotations from the literary reviews. An index to the numbers for each year was issued from 1878 to 1893 inclusive. Catalogue of the library of the Boston Athenxum, 1807- 1871. Boston : 1874-1882. 5 vols. 3402 pp. 1.8o. Part I. A-C. 1874. pp. [4], I-724. " II. D-H. 1876. pp. [4], 725-1490. " III. I-N. 1878. [4], 1491-2166. " IV. O-S. 1880. [4], 2167-2908. " V. T-Z. 1882. [10], 24, 2909-3402. The " Chronological list of the proprietors of the Boston Athenxum from its foundation to January 31, 1882, according to the certificate book," containing 24 pages, is bound in part V. Under the title " The editor to the proprietors," pages 3399-3402, Mr. Charles A. Cutter gives a brief account of the making of this catalogue. A catalogue of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenxum; compiled and annotated by Appleton P. C. Grif- fin; in four parts: I. Books from the library of General F.C. Gray George Washington. II. Other books from Mount Vernon. III. The writings of Washington. IV. Washingtoniana. With an appendix, The inventory of Washington's books 116 THE BOSTON ATHENAUM OFFICERS 117 John Richards 1821-1822 Josiah Quincy, Jr. Peter Oxenbridge Thacher 1823-1825 1828-1830 William Turell Andrews 1826-1832 1831-1845 Francis Calley Gray Henry Tuke Parker 1833 1846-1850 George Ticknor Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr 1834-1836 1851-1852 George Hayward William Sohier Dexter Thomas Greaves Cary 1837-1845 1853-1854 Henry Melville Parker John Amory Lowell 1846-1859 1855 William Appleton, Jr. 1860-1865 1856 George Livermore Lemuel Shaw, Jr. Andrew Townshend Hall 1866-1875 1857-1861 Arthur Theodore Lyman 1876 1862-1867 Charles Francis Adams Charles Francis Adams, Jr. 1868-1872 Charles Deane 1877-1884 Brooks Adams Robert William Hooper 1885 1873-1879 Charles Herbert Williams James Elliot Cabot 1886-1898 1880-1887 William Reuben Richards 1888-1894 John Chipman Gray 1899-1904 Albert Thorndike 1895- Howard Stockton 1905- DIRECTORS, 1807 TREASURERS John Lowell 1807-1810 William Emerson Joseph Tilden 1811-1815 John Thornton Kirkland Nathan Appleton 1816-1827 Peter Oxenbridge Thacher Thomas Wren Ward 1828-1836 Robert Hallowell Gardiner Josiah Quincy, Jr. 1837-1851 Joseph Stevens Buckminster Samuel Hooper 1852-1853 1854-1867 The first-named holders of each office, together with the five Henry Bromfield Rogers 1868 Directors in 1807, and Obadiah Rich, formed the first body of Arthur Theodore Lyman Henry Bromfield Rogers 1869-1876 Proprietors referred to in the Act of Incorporation. Charles Pickering Bowditch 1877-1898 TRUSTEES Alfred Bowditch 1899- William Emerson 1807-1810 SECRETARIES John Thornton Kirkland 1807-1810 William Smith Shaw 1807-1823 1 Peter Oxenbridge Thacher 1807-1822 Henry Codman 1824-1827 Robert Hallowell Gardiner 1807-1815 1 Under the By-Laws of 1822 the Secretary ceased to be a Trustee ex Joseph Stevens Buckminster 1807-1812 Harrison Gray Otis officio. 1807-1821 118 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM James Perkins 1807-1819 Samuel Eliot 1807-1810 Samuel Dexter 1811-1815 Richard Sullivan 1811-1821 John Lowell 1811-1813 Josiah Quincy 1813-1815 John Richards 1814-1820 John Davis 1816-1821 Joseph Tilden 1816-1822 David Sears 1819-1822 John Lowell 1820-1821 Theodore Lyman, Jr. 1821-1826 Edward Everett 1822-1823 Francis Calley Gray 1822-1825 Amos Lawrence 1822-1825 Charles Jackson 1822 Henry Codman 1823-1827 Samuel Swett 1823-1827 William Sturgis 1823-1825 Thomas Wigglesworth 1823-1828 George Ticknor 1823-1832 Nathaniel Bowditch 1826-1833 Samuel Dorr 1826-1827 Edward Brooks 1826-1829 George Hayward 1827-1833 Israel Thorndike 1828 Henderson Inches 1828-1831 Joseph Coolidge, Jr. 1828-1829 Franklin Dexter 1828-1835 Charles Pelham Curtis 1829-1834 John Lowell, Jr. 1829 Isaac P Davis 1830-1844 Edward Wigglesworth 1830-1850 OFFICERS 119 Samuel Atkins Eliot 1831 William Hickling Prescott 1832-1847 William Joseph Loring 1832-1835 William Turell Andrews 1833-1854 Thomas Greaves Cary 1834-1836 Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch 1834-1844 Samuel May 1835-1844 John Amory Lowell 1836-1845 Samuel Lawrence 1836-1838 Thomas Buckminster Curtis 1837-1845 Enoch Hale 1839-1848 Martin Brimmer 1845 Samuel Austin, Jr. 1845-1851 George Stillman Hillard 1845-1852 Amos Binney 1846-1847 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1846-1853 Charles Amory 1846-1850 John Lowell Gardner 1848 Henry Bromfield Rogers 1848-1851 George Theodore Lyman 1849 William Richards Lawrence 1849 William Phillips 1850 George Livermore 1851-1859 Samuel Hooper 1851 Edward Newton Perkins 1851-1852 Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch 1852-1854 Andrew Townshend Hall 1852-1865 William Thomas 1852-1863 Albert Fearing 1852-1859 Adam Wallace Thaxter, Jr. 1852-1855 Amos Adams Lawrence 1852-1853 Edward Augustus Crowninshield 1852-1859 Gardiner Howland Shaw 1852-1857 120 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM OFFICERS I2I Erastus Brigham Bigelow 1852-1857 Russell Gray 1882- Charles Eliot Norton 1852-1864 Roger Wolcott 1882-1897 James Brown 1853-1855 John Torrey Morse, Jr! 1883-1888 Samuel Gray Ward 1853-1855 Stanton Blake 1885-1889 Martin Brimmer 1854-1861 Edward Jackson Lowell 1885-1894 Henry Tuke Parker 1854 George Brune Shattuck 1886- Charles Eliot Ware 1855-1879 Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr 1887-1890 Robert William Hooper 1855-1884 Thornton Kirkland Lothrop 1889- Uriah Atherton Boyden 1855-1856 Charles Cabot Jackson 1890-1903 Edward Newton Perkins 1856-1898 Barrett Wendell 1890- Francis Edward Parker 1856-1876 Thomas Minns 1891-1894 William Appleton, Jr. 1856 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1894-1898 Edward Clarke Cabot 1857-1875 Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1895-1903 James Elliot Cabot 1857-1885 Frederic Jesup Stimson 1895- Francis Parkman 1858-1893 Charles Amos Cummings 1897-1905 Charles Russell Codman 1858-1863 Charles Francis Adams, 2d 1898- Gardiner Howland Shaw 1860-1867 James Elliot Cabot 1899-1902 Francis Boardman Crowninshield 1860-1875 Joseph Randolph Coolidge, Jr. 1899- George Washington Wales 1860-1896 John Elbridge Hudson 1899 Lemuel Shaw 1862-1884 James Ford Rhodes 1899- Alexander Hamilton Rice 1864-1881 Henry Francis Sears 1899-1905 Charles Storer Storrow 1864-1878 Charles Pickering Bowditch 1900-1905 Christopher Toppan Thayer 1865-1880 Augustus Hemenway 1903 Charles Deane 1866-1876 Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow 1904- Samuel Eliot 1866-1879 John Templeman Coolidge, Jr. 1904- Benjamin Smith Rotch 1868-1882 William Lowell Putnam 1904- Arthur Theodore Lyman 1876-1898 Solomon Lincoln 1905- Ephraim Whitman Gurney 1877-1886 Charles Pelham Greenough 1906- John Chipman Gray 1877-1898 Albert Matthews 1906- Henry Cabot Lodge 1879-1898 George Edward Cabot 1906- Howard Stockton 1880-1904 Thomas Buckminster Curtis 1880-1881 Clement Hugh Hill 1881-1889 134 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM PROPRIETORS 135 Lemuel Shattuck 1845 155 WILLIAM STURGIS 1822 John Torrey Morse, Jr., and Elizabeth Loring Tappan and Clarissa Baxter Shattuck 1860 William Hurd 1866 Eben Rollins Morse, Er- Mary Swift Tappan 1901 Miriam Stedman Shattuck 1883 Alexander Strong Wheeler 1866 ecutors 1894 174 DAVID WELD CHILD 1822 145 JONATHAN AMORY 1822 156 JOHN BRYANT 1822 Elihu Goodman Loomis 1894 Artemas Ward 1835 Jonathan Amory 1830 Waldo Higginson 1868 167 ABBOTT LAWRENCE 1822 Henry Artemas Ward 1848 Henry Grew 1831 Henry Munson Spelman and William Nye Davis 1857 Edward Alexander Strong 1866 Zelotes Hosmer 1836 Francis Clarke Welch, Annah Delano 1863 175 ROBERT GOULD SHAW 1822 Henry Roby 1837 Trustees 1895 James D. Thomson 1866 John Haven Cheever 1855 James Frothingham Hunne- 157 HENDERSON INCHES 1822 Robert Hooper, Jr. 1866 David Williams Cheever 1869 well 1851 Henderson Inches 1858 Joseph Hurd 1867 176 THOMAS CORDIS 1822 146 JESSE PUTNAM 1822 Martin Brimmer Inches 1885 168 MARSHALL BINNEY SPRING 1822 Thomas Aspinwall 1856 Benjamin W. Putnam 1862 John Chester Inches 1885 169 Amos LAWRENCE 1822 Francis Henshaw and Com- Dupee, Beck and Sayles 1869 Francis Clarke Welch, George William Richards Lawrence 1836 pany 1880 Elbridge Gerry Cutler 1870 Brimmer Inches, and Ber- Susan Coombs Lawrence 1885 Charles Smith Bradley 1880 147 CHARLES JACKSON 1822 nard Stearns Clark, Trus- George Brune Shattuck 1886 Fanny L. Francis 1889 Samuel George Snelling 1864 tees 1902 170 ISRAEL THORNDIKE, Jr. 1822 Nelson Slater Bartlett 1891 William Fletcher Weld 1886 158 ISAAC WINSLOW 1822 Edward Greely Loring 1844 177 JOHN BELLOWS 1822 Ellen Homer Weld 1893 Benjamin Pollard Winslow 1862 George Washington Warren 1844 George Alexander Otis 1826 148 SAMUEL PICKERING GARDNER 1822 Edward Reed 1882 Helen Talcott Jones 1884 John Brazer Davis 1827 Peter Thacher Homer 1844 John Orne Green 1885 George Pemberton Bangs 1884 James Murray Robbins 1835 Margaret Homer 1887 159 GORHAM BROOKS 1822 Robert Hallowell Gardiner, Archibald Murray Howe 1887 Margaret Homer Davis 1892 Peter Chardon Brooks, Jr. 1858 Trustee 1893 178 ABIJAH FISK 1822 149 PATRICK TRACY JACKSON 1822 Ellen Brooks 1865 William Lowell Putnam 1898 Hercules M. Hayes 1824 Lydia Jackson, Trustee 1860 Edward Dearborn Maynard 1884 Robert Hallowell Gardiner, John Williams 1829 Elizabeth H. Webster 1865 Harriet Elizabeth Ely 1888 Trustee 1898 Hercules M. Hayes 1830 Arthur Reed 1876 Elizabeth Brewster Ely 1891 Albert Thorndike 1903 Simon Eliot Greene 1830 150 CHARLES BRADBURY 1822 160 GEORGE HALLET 1822 Robert Hallowell Gardiner, Samuel Griswold Goodrich 1831 Charles Browne 1855 Caleb Cushing 1828 Trustee 1903 John Henry Jenks 1832 Edward Ingersoll Browne 1879 161 CHARLES THORNDIKE 1822 171 WILLIAN PRATT 1822 Samuel Griswold Goodrich 1833 Francis Clarke Welch and Charles Greely Loring, Ad- William Parsons Wincheste: 1845 John Mackay 1840 Charles Thorndike, Trus- ministrator 1846 Eliza Gill Winchester, William William Davies Sohier 1845 tees 1903 Ezra A. Bourne, Trustee and Sohier, and Charles Berkley William Sohier 1872 Robert Breck Williams 1904 Guardian 1851 Johnson, Trustees 1851 William Davies Sohier 1893 151 HORACE GRAY 1822 Charles Edward Cotting 1883 William Minot, Jr., Trustee 1891 179 SAMUEL DORR 1822 William Story Bullard 1849 Julius Auboineau Palmer 1883 Laurence Minot and Joseph Charles Hazen Dorr 1845 William Norton Bullard and Oliver Willard Mink 1901 Henry Russell, Trustees 1901 George Bucknam Dorr 1894 Stephen Bullard, Trustees 1897 162 AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE 1822 Simmons Female College 1903 180 SAMUEL WHITWELL, JR. 1822 152 FRANCIS CALLEY GRAY 1822 William Cranch Bond Fifield 1860 172 JAMES HALL 1822 Benjamin Franklin White 1837 William Gray 1858 Lorin Fuller Deland 1889 James Trecothick Austin 1841 Charles Royal Bond 1839 William Gray, Jr. 1858 163 BENJAMIN GUILD 1822 Susanna Williams 1847 Thomas William Parsons, Jr. 1840 Chester Guild, Jr. 1860 Eliza Guild 1861 Edward Alexander Williams 1860 Horace Wayland Wadleigh 1897 Francis Batcheller 1877 Edward Chipman Guild 1861 Sarah Ann Elizabeth Wil- Mary Evert Goodwin 1897 Susan Burley Cabot 1889 Katharine Rand Mead 1892 liams 1872 Mary Evert Nazro 1902 153 JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY 1822 164 EDWARD BROOKS 1822 Thomas Williams Williams 1875 Henry Hornblower 1902 James Beck 1864 Francis Brooks 1878 Charles Merrick Gay 1879 181 FREDERIC WILLIAM PAINE 1822 Edith Doane Beck 1875 Edmund March Wheelwright 1887 Georgic McClure 1894 Gardiner Leonard Chandler, Charles Edward Wilson 1876 165 EBENEZER APPLETON 1822 Georgie Lee 1897 Jr. 1835 154 THOMAS WREN WARD 1822 Alden Bradford Weston 1832 I73 JOHN TAPPAN 1822 David B. Tower 1837 Charles L. Field 1858 Peters and Parkinson 1878 John Gallison Tappan 1872 Rufus Choate 1839 John Sidney Davenport 1867 Francis Manning Stanwood 1879 Frederick Herbert Tappan and Mary Ann Palfrey Russell 1865 Augusta Kimball Horton 1876 166 EBENEZER ROLLINS 1822 Mary Swift Tappan 1888 182 FRANCIS STANTON. 1822 PROPRIETORS I59 687 WILLIAM UNDERWOOD 1850 Ellen Minerva Shumway 1880 Sara Hale Siedhof 1879 Edward Griffin Porter 1897 Charles Shorey Butler 1901 Ellen Carruth 1900 688 THOMAS BEALE WALES 1850 Timothy John Mahoney 1906 Frederick Lothrop Ames 1869 702 JOHN HUBBARD WILKINS 1850 Mary Shreve Ames 1901 George Hughes 1864 689 SAMUEL GRAY WARD 1850 Harriet Mighill Harding 1881 Charles Henry Bennett 1878 703 David WELD WILLIAMS 1850 Charles Goddard Weld 1882 William Harrington Mann 1856 690 THOMAS WREN WARD 1850 Sarah Jane Houghton 1884 Catherine Scollay 1858 William Stevens Houghton 1887 Sullivan Whitney 1863 Clement Stevens Houghton 1891 William Dade Brewer, Jr. 1891 704 GEORGE FOSTER WILLIAMS 1850 George Richard Blinn 1898 Ezra Farnsworth 1870 691 GEORGE WASHINGTON WARREN 1850 Alice Farnsworth 1892 Harriet Atwood Warren 1873 7°5 JOHN EARL WILLIAMS 1850 Joseph Warren Merrill 1888 James Tucker Fisher 1851 Hannah Brown Merrill 1890 Thomas Joseph Lee 1856 692 AARON DAVIS WELD 1850 Samuel Devens 1858 Benjamin Preston Clark 1886 Charles Torrey 1860 693 WILLIAM FLETCHER WELD 1850 John Bronson Meer 1874 Caroline Langdon Weld 1880 Artemas Wiswall Gates 1889 Jonathan Edwards Harlow 1903 Arthur Wiswall Gates-Fair- 694 JOHN WELLES 1850 banks 1890 Susan Jones Welles 1856 Samuel Jones Fowler 1902 Jane Welles 1871 George Bridge Leighton 1907 Jane Peele Hunnewell 1881 706 WILLIS AND COMPANY 1850 Walter Hunnewell 1901 Abel Goodrich Farwell 1852 695 ALDEN BRADFORD WESTON 1850 Hamilton Willis 1853 Ezra Weston 1850 Henry Willis 1856 Henry Grew 1854 Samuel Dennis Warren 1874 Edward Sturgis Grew 1892 Susan Cornelia Warren 1888 696 CHARLES OCTAVIUS WHITMORE 1850 Samuel Dennis Warren 1903 Charles John Whitmore 1886 707 WILLIAM SOHIER, Trustee 1850 Sarah Olcott Murdock Whit- William Minot, Jr., Trustee 1891 more 1898 Laurence Minot and Joseph William Edward Putnam 1903 Henry Russell, Trustees 1901 697 DAVID RICE WHITNEY 1850 Simmons Female College 1903 698 EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH 1850 708 JOSHUA HUNTINGTON WOLCOTT 1850 Edward Wigglesworth, Jr. 1874 Henry Allen Rice 1850 699 JAMES CHRISTIE WILD 1850 Richard Baker, Jr. 1852 Catharine Hall Wild 1886 Ellen Maria Baker, Charles Charles Pickering Bowditch, Uriah Cotting, and Alexander Trustee 1892 Strong Wheeler, Trustees 1893 700 SOLOMON WILDES 1850 709 SELECTMEN OF TEMPLETON, Josiah Quincy, Jr. 1853 MASSACHUSETTS 1854 Frederic Stanwood 1883 BOSTON ATHEN/EUM 1907 Melvin Ohio Adains 1884 Katharine Brewer Shillaber 1907 701 CHARLES WILKINS 1850 710 SELECTMEN OF TEMPLETON, 1 Samuel Hurd Walley 1858 MASSACHUSETTS 1854 James Ellison 1864 BOSTON ATHEN/UN 1907 EDUCATION FRUCTUS SECURITY THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM LETTER OF PERMISSION This letter authorizes the reproduction or use of the following photographic copies of items from the Athenxum's collection for the purpose specified below in the "Statement of Intended Use." Permission is granted in accordance with the conditions listed on the verso of this sheet. Any violation of these conditions may result in denial of further service and/or legal action. COLLECTION OF PERMISSION AUTHORIZED BY: THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM NOT TO BE REPRODUCED Date: September 21, 2015 OR QUOTED WITHOUT PERMISSION Requester: Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Address: 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 1704 Telephone: 7172720801 Eppster2@corucast.net ITEM(s) TO BE REPRODUCED: 1. Park Street, Boston. 1858. Image shows Boston Common on left and dim shape of Boston Statehouse at extreme end of street. 2. Residence of C. Woodbury and C.H. Dorr. #18 Commonwealth Avenue. C. 1870. STATEMENT OF INTENDED USE: One-time, one-language, reproduction, inside, Worldwide distribution. No other rights granted. Rights are non-transferrable. Title: Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr Author / Editor: Ronald Epp Publisher / Date: The Friends of Acadia Print run / Quantity: 2,000 I have read the conditions for reproduction or use of photographic copies of items from the Athenxum's collection listed on the verso of this sheet and I agree to abide by them. I will be responsible for conforming to copyright and literary property rights. *Signature: Epp *Date: Sept. 24,2015 101/2 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-3777 Telephone (617)227-0270 Facsimile (617) 720-7678 www.bostonathenaeum.org EDITION FRUCTUS BOSTON BOOTON LODY ATHEN/EUM ATHEN/EUM Home 9/14/15. PHOTOGRAPHY ORDER & RIGHTS CLEARANCE FORM Name * Company name Address * City * State / Country * Zip / Postal Code * Telephone * Fax Email * Date by which image(s) / permission(s) are needed * Details of Request (Call number, title and / or Artist ) * COLPUT or THE SOCTON ATHENAEUM NOTTOSE REPRODUCED OF QUOTED PLAUSSION HDT lois 600 #18 RESIDENCE OF "photo) C. WOODBURY aND C. H. DORR. Residence of G.B Dorr, #18 Commonwealth AVE. 1863- 111 10/20/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Form submission from: Photography Order & Rights Clearance Form From : Boston Athenaeum Digital Programs Mon, Oct 19, 2015 09:24 AM Subject : Re: Form submission from: Photography Order & Rights Clearance Form To : Ronald Epp Hello Mr. Epp, I am SO sorry this was not taken care of before now. I have your check and form - thank you. As we haven't been able to find these images, I have not submitted the check to accounting. Catharina is away until Wednesday; but, I will ask her to speak with you when she returns to try to sort this out. Thank you. Best, Pat On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: It has been a month since I responded to you with the information and a check for $125. to cover the reproduction and rights fees. To date I have heard nothing from your organization. Please respond as soon as possible since my deadline for including images in the book is fast approaching. If a phone call would clarify my needs, let me know when I might reach you. Cordially, Ronald H. Epp Ph.D. From: "Boston Athenaeum Digital Programs" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 9:39:49 AM Subject: Re: Form submission from: Photography Order & Rights Clearance Form Thank you. The paperwork is attached. I will need more information in order to get the correct images to scan. Do you have call numbers, or source names? Best, Pat On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Dear Pat, Yes, the $125. fee is acceptable. Ronald Epp From: "Boston Athenaeum Digital Programs" To: eppster2@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 2:10:32 PM Subject: Fwd: Form submission from: Photography Order & Rights Clearance Form Hello, Thank you for your request. The fee fro a hi-res scan and reproduction in 2000 books is $125.00. If this is agreeable, I will get paperwork to you as soon as possible. https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=329184&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/3 10/20/2015 XHINITY Connect Best, Pat Forwarded message From: Boston Athenaeum Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:03 PM Subject: Form submission from: Photography Order & Rights Clearance Form To: digitalprograms@bostonathenaeum.org Submitted on Monday, September 14, 2015 - 3:03pm Submitted by user: Anonymous Submitted values are: Name: Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Company name: Address: 532 Sassafras Dr. City: Lebanon State / Country: PA Zip / Postal Code: 17042 Telephone: 7172720801 Fax: Email: eppster2@comcast.net Date by which image(s) / permission(s) are needed: October 5, 2015 Details of Request (Call number, title and / or Artist ): Two scanned images: 1. Park Street, Boston. 1858. Image shows Boston Common on left and dim shape of Boston Statehouse at extreme end of street. 2. Residence of C. Woodbury and C.H. Dorr. #18 Commonwealth Avenue. c.1870. Type of image required including size and resolution: Scanned 8 X 11" images at 300 dpi. Description of use (book, TV, advertising, CD/DVD, etc.): To be included in a biography of George Bucknam Dorr. This book will discuss Dorr's relationship with his maternal grandfather Thomas Wren Ward, a Boston Athenaeum proprietor as was Dorr's father, Charles Hazen Dorr. The first image is of Ward's residence on Park Street, the other of the later Dorr residence at #18 Commonwealth Avenue. Title: Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr Author / Editor: Ronald H. Epp Publisher / Date: The Friends of Acadia, 43 Cottage Street, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207-288-3340 A not-for-profit entity. Print run / Quantity: 2,000 Distribution rights (North American or World): North America Language(s): English The results of this submission may be viewed at: https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/154/submission/2559 Patricia M Boulos Digital Programs Librarian Boston Athenaeum 617 720-7613 Patricia M Boulos Digital Programs Librarian Boston Athenxeum 617 720-7613 Patricia M Boulos https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=329184&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/3 THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM NOi TO SEREPRODUCED OF QUOTED WITHOUT PERMISSION PET LOT fine lot fill #18 RESIDENCE OF (photo) C. WOODBURY aND C. H. DORR. B6,436 t.co.(no.1) Photograph, 1870 or 1871 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 8 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne; + Font Size - Re: Portraits of Dorr-Ward-Gray family members From : Catharina Slautterback Sat, Dec 10, 2011 02:34 PM Subject : Re: Portraits of Dorr-Ward-Gray family members To : Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Dear Ron, I will mail the portraits to you early on Monday. There will be need to reimburse the Athenaeum since the cost is only about two dollars. I'm sorry you did not have an opportunity to visit the Athenaeum. Perhaps life will conspire to bring you back to Boston for a visit. If so, I would be happy to meet you. Best, Catharina On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Ronald & Elizabeth Epp wrote: Dear Catharina, What wonderful news! Four portraits of Dorr family members, much more than I had hoped for. Yes, please do send them to my new address here in Pennsylvania. May I reimburse you for your handling and mailing expenses? New England was our home from 1985 until this past summer when we retired to Pennsylvania. During the last decade I spent many days on or near Beacon Hill investigating the sites where George Bucknam Dorr lived and interacted with his peers for the better part of a century. The archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, and Harvard University were important to reconstituting Mr. Dorr's activities. Unfortunately, time and circumstance conspired to prevent me from visiting the Boston Athenaeum--and perhaps having the pleasure of meeting you! Best Wishes for the Holidays, Ron Epp From: "Catharina Slautterback" To: "Ronald & Elizabeth Epp" Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 12:58:11 PM Subject: Re: Portraits of Dorr-Ward-Gray family members http://sz0122.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=18720&xim=1 12/10/2011 XFINITY Connect Page 2 of 8 Dear Ronald, I have portraits of the four individuals listed below. Presuming that you will not be in the Boston area in the near future, may I send photocopies to your Lebanon, Pennsylvania address? Catharina On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Ronald & Elizabeth Epp