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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1896-1897, Vol. 11: Second Series
Besides various matters connected with the financial condition and plans of the Society, the volume contains much of a more general interest. Of the miscellaneous papers, the communications by justin winsor on the Cabot Controversies, on the manuscript of Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, and on Baptista Ag nese and American Cartography; by william R thayer, on Youth and Revolutions; by samuel A. Green, on the Early History of Printing in America; the diary of Lieutenant Dudley Bradstreet at the Siege of Louisburg; the remarks by samuel E. Herriok and alexander V. G. Allen on the anniversary of the death of Melanchthon; and the tributes to the mem bers whose deaths are recorded in the volume, are espe cially noteworthy. There are also memoirs of andrew P. Peabody, by Edward J. Young; of oliver wen dell holmes, by John T. Morse, Jr.; of james rus sell lowell, by A. Lawrence Lowell; of rufus ceoa're, by Clement Hugh Hill; of hamilton A. Hill, by Samuel E. Herrick; of william S. Shurtleff, by George S. Merriam; of leverett saltonstall, by Charles R. Codman; and of henry L. Pierce, by James M. Bugbee, each of which is accompanied by a portrait.
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