Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakspeare: Boston, Mass;, April 23, 1864
In the New World, says Lord John Russell in his Life of Thomas Moore, mil lions are added every year to those whose government and institutions are American, but whose literature is English; and in these millions there will be communities hold ing aloft the literature of England through the ocean of time, - who will neither be subject to conquest by a superior State, like the Greeks, nor exposed to the invasion of barbarians, like the Romans.
In the latter part of January, 1864, Frederic Kidder, of Boston, a member of the new-england historic-genealogical Society, suggested to some other members the propriety of celebrating this anniversary by the Society; and at an informal meeting held at its rooms, Feb. 6, Mr. Kidder was requested to write Rev. Frederic W. Holland, of Cambridge, upon the subject. In Mr. Holland's reply of Feb. 10, he urged the observance of the day.
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