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PREFACE. 
 
 Some time must pass before the completion 
 of an adequate description and analysis of 
 the Chamberlain Collection of Autographs. 
 Meanwhile it is desirable that somewhat 
 be known of its size and scope, particularly 
 for the information of libraries and students 
 at a distance. A portion, however, is already 
 exposed to public view in a series of framed 
 documents and tablets. Placed as these 
 tablets are, in a position to attract the notice 
 of younger students of American history, 
 they are now rendered most intelligible and 
 useful by historical prefaces which introduce 
 their titles throughout the following pages. 
 In a few months it is proposed to print in 
 separate form the full text of the four great 
 documents, mentioned more fully beyond, and 
 with them to reprint the prefaces to them, as 
 well as the descriptions of the tablets. 
 
 The account which here follows of the 
 general collection coincides in part with an 
 article written a few years ago for the Boston 
 Sunday Herald, by the Rev. Julius H. Ward, 
 from memoranda furnished by the Hon. Mel- 
 len Chamberlain. 
 
In the preparation of this pamphlet, es- 
 pecially of the part relating to the framed 
 documents and tablets, the Library has se- 
 cured the assistance of Edwin M. Bacon, Esq., 
 who has gained an intimate knowledge of the 
 Collection by his classification of the material 
 therein. 
 
 Lindsay Swift, 
 Editor of Library Publications. 
 
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THE 
 CHAMBERLAIN COLLECTION. 
 
 The collection of historical documents,^ 
 manuscripts, autographs, portraits, 'and en- 
 gravings, together with a few printed vol- 
 umes, belonging to the Hon. Mellen Cham- 
 berlain, and proposed to be left, by testa- 
 mentary bequest, to the Boston Public Li- 
 brary, is now deposited in the library. It is 
 arranged in two parts: the general collection 
 and the series of framed tablets. The latter 
 consists of four great documents: the Address 
 to the King, 1774; the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, 1776; the Articles of Confederation, 
 1777; and the Constitution, 1787; and of 
 sixty-three framed tablets, made up of auto- 
 graph signatures cut from receipts, franked 
 envelopes, or from historical documents of 
 no intrinsic value, here grouped, and illus- 
 trated by portraits, biographical sketches, 
 and historical notes. The tablets, which are 
 described in detail below, are displayed on 
 
the walls of the room for Younger Readers, 
 off the Chavannes corridor. 
 
 THE GENERAL COLLECTION. 
 
 The general collection occupies a room 
 opening from the Librarian's room and es- 
 pecially fitted to receive it. When bound 
 and catalogued, the collection will be more 
 fully open to examination than is now prac- 
 ticable. It consists of bound and unbound 
 vqlume3' of manuscripts, and of printed 
 books, expanded and extra-illustrated; in all, 
 mor»^ than three hundred and fifty volumes, 
 conveniently to be divided for the purpose of 
 description, into American and European sec- 
 tions, and unclassified material. 
 
 THE AMERICAN SECTION. 
 
 In the American section, relating to the 
 colonial, provincial, and revolutionary peri- 
 ods, are twelve volumes of Massachusetts his- 
 torical manuscripts; three devoted to New 
 Hampshire, from the first settlement; fifteen 
 to famous men, from all the colonies, con- 
 nected with the Revolution; three to the 
 signers of the Declaration of Independence; 
 and five to Washingtoniana. One volume is 
 given to the prominent Quakers who suffered 
 persecution in Boston, in 1660; one to Bur- 
 goyne's campaign, in 1777; and one to the 
 actors in the Salem witchcraft tragedy. Five 
 
royal-octavo volumes, richly bound, contain 
 letters, documents, manuscripts, and portraits, 
 relating to Benjamin Franklin, to John Ad- 
 ams, to John Hancock, to Samuel Adams and 
 Joseph Warren, and to those engaged, on 
 both sides, in the battles of Lexington, Con- 
 cord, and Bunker Hill. 
 
 Among the volumes relating to this early 
 period, some merit particular description. 
 The volume given up to the Quakers per- 
 secuted in Boston contains the unpublished 
 letter which William Dyer, the husband 
 of the unfortunate Mary Dyer, wrote to 
 the Court of Assistants in 1659, pleading for 
 the life of his wife; also the original ''Warn- 
 ing" of Margaret Smith — the original of 
 Whittier's "Margaret Smith's Journal" — 
 ''given forth in the House of Correction in 
 Boston, New England, December 1660," and 
 other papers respecting the treatment of the 
 Quakers by the Massachusetts authorities. 
 
 The five volumes relating to Washington 
 may properly be classed with the series of the 
 Revolution, although they include letters and 
 documents written by Washington between 
 the age of eighteen and the closing years of 
 his life, with letters and portraits of his con- 
 temporaries associated with him both in mili- 
 tary and civil affairs. Among these contem- 
 poraries represented are Braddock, Lord Lou- 
 don, Baron Steuben, the titular Lord Stirling, 
 Israel and Rufus Putnam, Knox, Gates, 
 
Charles Lee, Henry Lee, Greene, Sullivan, 
 Arnold, Lord and Sir William Howe, Sir 
 Henry Clinton, Cornwallis, Lafayette, Ro- 
 chambeau, de Grasse, Duportail, Earl Bu- 
 chan, Luzerne, Genet, Jefferson, Hamilton, 
 Randolph, Wolcott and Habersham. One 
 volume is made up of the various portraits, 
 prints of busts and monuments of Washing- 
 ton, with portraits and autographs of the dis- 
 tinguished artists to whom he sat. It contains 
 every known portrait of Washington which 
 has any merit as a likeness or as a work of art. 
 
 The volume of the Signers of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence contains a very curious 
 series of about twenty autograph poems, 
 which George Wythe of Virginia and William 
 Ellery of Rhode Island addressed to each 
 other, and probably composed while the 
 question of independence was under discus- 
 sion in the Congress of 1776. 
 
 Memorials of various sorts are collected in 
 the volumes relating to the unfortunate ex- 
 pedition against Canada in 1690, which was 
 paid for by the first issue of paper money 
 instead of by expected booty; to the capture 
 of Louisburg in 1745, which was followed by 
 the expatriation of the Acadians; and to the 
 proposed attack on Crown Point in 1755. In 
 one or the other of these expeditions Gov- 
 ernor Shirley, the Pepperrells, Commodore 
 Warren, and Colonel John Winslow were 
 prominent. The period of the Stamp Act 
 
and the later military actions during the 
 Revolution, at Bennington, Saratoga, Stony- 
 Point, in the Southern Campaigns, and at the 
 crowning victory at Yorktown, are illustrated 
 by letters and documents; as are also Naval, 
 Diplomatic, and Congressional affairs. 
 
 The beginnings of the Revolution, particu- 
 larly the part played by Massachusetts, are 
 illustrated in the bound volumes of letters of 
 Franklin, Hancock, the Adamses and others. 
 In these are numerous documents, in manu- 
 script or printed, relating to the "Boston 
 Massacre," including the action of the Town, 
 the General Court, and popular assemblies. 
 The proceedings at the time of the destruc- 
 tion of the tea in 1773 are fully illustrated by 
 rare printed placards. Among other papers are 
 original letters to the selectmen written by 
 Samuel Adams and others; the resolutions of 
 the Boston Town meeting in Adams's hand- 
 writing; and letters of Richard Clarke & Sons 
 to John Hancock, respecting the cargo of tea 
 consigned to them. In the collection are also 
 many letters of Committees of Correspond- 
 ence; non-importation agreements in manu- 
 script; papers relating to the treatment of 
 loyalists before the outbreak of hostilities, and 
 letters on questions of the day, by the Otises, 
 father and son, the Quincys, senior and junior, 
 Joseph and James Warren, Paul Revere and 
 others, together with political hand-bills, 
 broadsides and caricatures. 
 
The Lexington and Concord fights, and 
 the battle of Bunker Hill, are fully illustrated 
 by original contemporary letters and docu- 
 ments interleaved in the monographs printed 
 in 1875, commemorating the centennials of 
 those events. These manuscripts include the 
 name of nearly every man of distinction found 
 on either side of the contest, among them 
 General Gage, Lieut. -Colonel Smith, who led 
 the main party of the British, Lord Percy, 
 who brought up the relieving columns, Paul 
 Revere and William Dawes, who carried the 
 alarm to Middlesex, James Barrett and Major 
 Buttrick, who were conspicuous on the Amer- 
 ican side, Gerry, Orne and Lee, of the Com- 
 mittee of Safety and Supplies, who escaped 
 capture by the British only by a precipitate 
 flight from their beds at the Black Horse 
 Tavern in Menotomy (Arlington), Joseph 
 Warren, and the Rev. Jonas Clarke, in whose 
 house John Hancock and Samuel Adams had 
 been entertained the night before the fight. 
 One of the most interesting documents here 
 is the original bill of Dr. Joseph Fisk for med- 
 ical services rendered to the "King's Troops 
 on the 19th of April." 
 
 The monograph of Bunker-Hill, June 17, 
 1775, bound with that of Lexington and Con- 
 cord, is even more fully illustrated, and con- 
 tains several letters and documents written 
 on the day of the battle and relating to it. 
 One is a letter of Israel Putnam to the Com- 
 
mittee of Supplies relative to forwarding 
 eighteen barrels of powder from Connecticut. 
 Here also is found the letter of Daniel Web- 
 ster correcting the proof sheets of his oration 
 at the laying of the cornerstone of Bunker- 
 Hill monument, and the original invitation to 
 deliver the oration on the completion of the 
 monument. On blank pages of the volume 
 Whittier has transcribed his ''Lexington, 
 1775," Emerson, his famous Concord Bridge 
 hymn, and Holmes, his "Grandmother's Story 
 of Bunker Hill Battle." 
 
 Following the Revolution, there are me- 
 morials of the Constitutional Convention of 
 1787, and of the successive administrations 
 from Washington to Grant. In these are 
 grouped the presidents, cabinets, diploma- 
 tists, judges, speakers of the House, and the 
 leading statesmen in both houses of Congress. 
 
 American artists occupy six volumes; 
 American inventors, one volume; men of af- 
 fairs, twenty-three volumes; Massachusetts 
 judges and lawyers, eight volumes; miscel- 
 lanies, twenty-three volumes; historic houses 
 of the United States, illustrated with auto- 
 graphs, views and portraits, two volumes. 
 Duyckinck's "Cyclopaedia of American Liter- 
 ature" is expanded into forty-seven volumes 
 by portraits, autograph letters and original 
 manuscripts of poems or other writings of the 
 greater part of the authors treated in that 
 work, and of many others incidentally men- 
 
tioned in its biographical notices. This work 
 is supplemented by twenty-three volumes of 
 literary characters not included in Duyckinck. 
 In the volumes devoted to American artists 
 is found every memorable name from Copley 
 to recent times. 
 
 THE EUROPEAN SECTION. 
 
 The European section includes four vol- 
 umes devoted to sovereigns, thirty to men of 
 affairs, eleven to men of letters, one to musi- 
 cians, two to actors and actresses, six to 
 artists, two to philosophers, four to scientific 
 men, ten to the period of the Revolution in 
 France, and six to Shakespeare. 
 
 All the sovereigns of England from Henry 
 VII. to Victoria, except Edward VI., are in- 
 cluded; of France from Louis XII. to Louis 
 XVI.; representatives of the French Direc- 
 tory, the Consulate, the First empire, and of 
 the Bonaparte family; and such rulers of other 
 nations (to mention only some of the most 
 famous) as Ferdinand and Isabella, the Philips 
 of Spain, Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII., 
 Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa, Cather- 
 ine II. and Alexander I. of Russia. Among 
 the volumes given to men of affairs, letters or 
 documents are found of the earls of Essex, of 
 Leicester, Fairfax, Sully, Mazarin, Colbert, 
 Richelieu, Coke, Cecil, Fox, George Gren- 
 ville. Lord North, the younger Pitt, Grattan 
 and his eminent contemporaries, and of such 
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of the French revolutionary characters as 
 Robespierre, Danton, Camot, Marat, Necker, 
 and his daughter, Madame de Stael. Among 
 names distinguished in military affairs are Pic- 
 colomini, Turenne, Vauban, Peterborough, 
 Eugene, Marlborough, Wolfe, and Welling- 
 ton; Napoleon and his marshals form a 
 group by themselves. Among the great di- 
 vines represented are Melanchthon, Calvin, 
 Bossuet, Fenelon, Jeremy Taylor, Bishop 
 Burnet, Berkeley, Dr. Samuel Clarke, War- 
 burton, Hurd, Whately, and others equally 
 eminent; among men of science and inventors, 
 Newton, Watt, the Herschels, Faraday, the 
 Stephensons, and the great French and 
 German astronomers; among philosophers 
 and metaphysicians, Leibnitz, Bayle, d'Alem- 
 bert, Diderot, Erasmus, Darwin, Hutcheson, 
 Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Condorcet, Rousseau, 
 St. Simon, Kant, Marmontel, Maupertuis, 
 Richard Price, Baron Grimm, Fichte, Hegel, 
 Helvetius, Herder, Hobbes, Lotze, Adam 
 Smith, Reid, Priestley, Schelling, Schlegel, 
 Schopenhauer, Sir William Hamilton, John 
 Stuart Mill, Isaac Taylor, Cousin, and Her- 
 bert Spencer. 
 
 Among continental and British artists, 
 represented by signed or attributed specimens 
 of their work in original drawings or pen and 
 ink sketches, are found the names of such 
 eminent painters, sculptors, and architects as 
 Domenichino, Del Sarto, Correggio, Holbein, 
 
Paul Veronese, Andrea Sacchi. Van Dyck, 
 Rembrandt, Gabriel Metsu, Sir Peter Lely, 
 Sir Christopher Wren, Sir James Thornhill, 
 George Vertue, Hogarth, Richard Wilson, 
 Campagniola, Sir Joshua Reynolds, George 
 Romney, James Barry, James Northcote, 
 William Blake, Cruikshank, Landseer, Millais, 
 Thorwaldsen, Overbeck, Winckelmann, Dela- 
 roche, and Delacroix. Among musicians, 
 composers and performers, are the names, 
 some of them accompanied by manuscripts 
 of compositions and all with portraits, of 
 Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, 
 Auber, Schneider, Weber, Sontag, Meyer- 
 beer, Schumann, Wagner, Sir Henry R. 
 Bishop, Jennie Lind, and Ole Bull; amonjs: 
 actors, of Garrick, the Kembles, Talma, Mrs. 
 Siddons, Mrs. Inchbald, Macready, Buck- 
 stone, John Maddison Morton (the farce 
 writer), Junius Brutus Booth, Forrest, Charles 
 Kean, Vandenhoff, Edwin Booth, and John 
 Brougham. 
 
 The volumes of Shakesperiana include au- 
 tograph letters of nearly all the Shakesperian 
 editors and scholars — Edmund Malone, Mrs. 
 Montagu, Bishop Percy, Thomas Tyrwhitt, 
 Richard Farmer, Dr. Nathan Drake, Charles 
 Knight, Sir Harris Nicholas, George Steevens, 
 Isaac Reed, Anna Seward, the Rev. Thomas 
 Bowdler, Alexander Chalmers, Francis Douce, 
 Ireland the forger, Alexander Dyce, James O. 
 
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Halliwell, J. Payne Collier, Joseph Ritson, 
 and Joseph Haslewood. 
 
 In the European section, as in the American, 
 it has often been found practicable by the 
 collector to group letters and other interest- 
 ing matters under a general heading, as ''Some 
 Eminent Scotchmen," or round some dis- 
 tinguished name, as Sir Walter Scott, Francis 
 Jeffrey, and Lord Macaulay, concerning whom 
 notable illustrated monographs have appeared 
 in magazines. These monographs, inlaid to 
 uniform size, have been prepared to receive 
 additional illustration in the form of letters, 
 not only of the principal characters written 
 about, but also of many who are incidentally 
 mentioned. For example: in the "Eminent 
 Scotchmen" series are found, in connection 
 with the descriptive letter-press, an original 
 poem of Allan Ramsay, letters of James Thom- 
 son, author of ''The Seasons," of Burns (a poem 
 signed), of Thomas Reid, David Hume, Dr. 
 William Cullen, Dr. William Hunter, Hus^h 
 Blair, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Dr. 
 John Moore, James Beattie, James Watt, 
 James Macpherson, "translator" of Ossian, 
 Henry Mackenzie, Mrs. Anne Grant, and 
 others. 
 
 The other Scotch monographs must be 
 treated more concisely. The principal men of 
 the coterie of which Scott was the centre, 
 those associated with Constable, who founded, 
 and with Jeffrey and his associates, who for 
 
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many years carried on the ''Edinburgh Re- 
 view," and those associated with William 
 Blackwood, of ''Blackwood's Magazine," are 
 respectively represented by autographs, and 
 in some cases by leaves of the original copy 
 of one or more of their pubUshed articles. 
 The names of some of those thus associated 
 are Archibald Constable, Francis Horner, 
 Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Lord Brougham, 
 John Ballantyne, Dugald Stewart, Thomas 
 Campbell, James Hogg, William Blackwood, 
 John Gait, Allan Cunningham, John Wilson, 
 George Combe, Alexander Carlyle, Basil 
 Hall, J. R. McCulloch, Edward Irving, Lock- 
 hart, Carlyle, David M. Moir ("Delta"), 
 Motherwell, Dr. John Brown, Dr. Thomas 
 Chalmers, Thomas Guthrie, Robert and Wil- 
 liam Chambers. 
 
 In the Macaulay monograph are bio- 
 graphical notices of the Rev. Zachary Ma- 
 caulay, father of Lord Macaulay, and of many 
 of the members of the "Clapham Set." There 
 are letters of Granville Sharp, Hannah More, 
 Bishop Percy, Catherine Macaulay, Dr. John- 
 son, Mrs. Thrale, Winthrop M.Praed, Bulwer, 
 Jeffrey, Samuel Rogers, John Wilson, James 
 Montgomery, and of others, in some way asso- 
 ciated with the Macaulay family. This vol- 
 ume is supplemented by autograph letters of 
 some of the subjects of Macaulay's Essays, 
 including Fanny Burney, Lord Burleigh, 
 Francis Bacon, Sir William Temple, Chatham, 
 
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Walpole, Warren Hastings, Sir Philip Fran- 
 cis, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Holland, 
 Southey, Hallam, Croker, and Gladstone. 
 
 UNCLASSIFIED. 
 
 Besides the classified collection is a con- 
 siderable mass of manuscripts of great his- 
 torical or literary value, awaiting arrange- 
 ment, in which are in particular two papers 
 of more than ordinary interest. The earliest 
 is a printed broadside in folio, announcing 
 the acting of the "Tragedy of Zara" in Faneuil 
 Hall "by a society of ladies and gentlemen." 
 The play was given in the winter of 1775- 
 76, when the British army under Sir William 
 Howe, and many loyalists, were held in Boston 
 by Washington's army. The play-bill is very 
 rare, and this copy of it probably unique in 
 having on its back a finely written cast of the 
 characters. 
 
 The other paper is also very rare, since it 
 is one of the only two of the same kind said 
 to have been removed from their place in the 
 days of the Commune. It is a pay-roll of the 
 members of the French National Institute, 
 December, 1801. Among the receipting sig- 
 natures are the names of Legendre, Delambre, 
 Lacroix, Carnot, Cuvier, Lamarck, Jussieu, 
 Saint Pierre, abbe Sicard, Merlin, Cassini 
 the astronomer, Vauquelin the chemist, abbe 
 Sabatier the famous surgeon, Ducis the 
 French dramatist, and the following famous 
 
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painters or sculptors, — David, Regnault, 
 Julien, Roland, and Houdon. About one hun- 
 dred signatures appear on this pay-roll, every 
 one of which was written by a man of dis- 
 tinction. 
 
 PRINTED BOOKS. 
 
 Though the Chamberlain Collection con- 
 sists mainly of autograph letters and docu- 
 ments, it includes also several volumes bearing 
 the autographs of famous men; and others, 
 besides many pamphlets, which are the in- 
 scribed gifts of authors. Among the former 
 is a copy of Scaliger's Poetics, with two au- 
 tographs of Pope; another entitled "Desiderii 
 Erasmi Flores," date of 1645, with Mather 
 Byles's autograph on the title page; another 
 made up of Thomas Moore's autograph notes 
 for a History of Ireland; another, and perhaps 
 the most interesting of them, is the little 
 duodecimo volume in which Coleridge, Charles 
 Lamb, and Lloyd, made their venture in pub- 
 lishing their poems, in 1797. This was Lamb's 
 own copy in which he transcribed at the end 
 of his printed poems his sonnet to "Miss 
 Kelly," signed '^C. Lamb, Sept. 1819." He 
 at first inadvertently wrote this sonnet on the 
 blank half page separating the poems of Lloyd 
 from his own. Discovering his mistake, he 
 cut out the leaf, and in doing so also excised 
 two stanzas of Lloyd's poems printed on the 
 reverse of the leaf. To restore these stanzas 
 
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he copied them in his own hand on the mar- 
 gins, and rewrote his sonnet in its proper 
 place, as it now appears. 
 
 "The Courtship of Miles Standish, and 
 other Poems," by Longfellow, is, perhaps, the 
 most interesting volume in this part of the 
 collection. The edition is the EngHsh duo- 
 decimo, illustrated by Sir John Gilbert. It is 
 inlaid to foHo size to accommodate a letter, 
 which must be regarded as the most interest- 
 ing document of the early Plymouth Colony. 
 The volume contains a portrait and character- 
 istic note of Gilbert. In it are also to be found 
 many photographic and engraved portraits of 
 Longfellow selected by him from a large num- 
 ber from which he excluded eight or ten as 
 "not altogether pleasing." These latter, 
 though not included, have been preserved. 
 The portraits included all bear Longfellow's 
 autograph, and the text is preceded by the 
 opening stanza in his autograph. The letter 
 inserted in the volume is a well-preserved 
 folio, dated February 6, 163 1/2, of con- 
 siderable historical importance, addressed to 
 Governor John Winthrop. Winthrop's in- 
 dorsement and Bradford's seal are on the 
 fourth page. It is in Bradford's hand- 
 writing, signed by Bradford himself, Gov- 
 ernor Thomas Prence, Dr. William Fuller, 
 the famous physician not only of Plymouth 
 but of the Massachusetts Colony as well, and 
 by two of the principal characters of the poem, 
 
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— Miles Standish and John Alden. Besides 
 these autographs the volume contains letters 
 of Governor Winslow, Cotton Mather and 
 others, and many engraved illustrations of 
 scenes and events referred to in the poem. 
 
 Another book, enlarged in a similar way, is 
 the "Salem Witchcraft,'^ by Charles W. Up- 
 ham, in two volumes. It contains many of 
 the original complaints, depositions, execu- 
 tions, and other papers used at the trials of 
 those charged with witchcraft, together with 
 documents or letters of many persons who, 
 like Cotton Mather, were conspicuous in that 
 delusion. 
 
 SKETCH OF MELLEN 
 CHAMBERLAIN. 
 
 It is fitting that a few facts of the life of 
 Judge Chamberlain, and of the conditions 
 under which the collection was made, should 
 be recorded here. Mellen Chamberlain was 
 born, June 4, 1821, at Pembroke, N. H. In 
 1844 he graduated, with high rank, from Dart- 
 mouth College. After teaching for several 
 years in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1846 he entered 
 the Harvard Law school, and soon after was 
 appointed Librarian of that department of 
 the university. In 1849 ^^ was admitted to 
 the bar, and in June of the same year became 
 a citizen of Chelsea, where he still resides. 
 He was a member of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives in 1858-59; of the Senate, 
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1863-64, the second year serving as chairman 
 of the committee on the judiciary; an Asso- 
 ciate Justice of the Municipal Court of Boston 
 from June 29, 1866 to Dec. i, 1870; Chief Jus- 
 tice of that court from that date to August, 
 1878; and Librarian of the Boston Public 
 Library from August, 1878 to October, 1890. 
 
 At the age of nineteen he was elected a 
 member (the youngest ever chosen) of the 
 New Hampshire Historical Society. He is a 
 corresponding member of the New York, 
 Connecticut, and Pennsylvania historical so- 
 cieties, and a member of .the American acad- 
 emy, the New England Historic genealogical 
 society, and the Massachusetts Historical so- 
 ciety. The following are among his contribu- 
 tions to American historical work: "J^^^^ Ad- 
 ams, the statesman of the American Revolu- 
 tion" (1884); A review of McMaster's History 
 (Andover Review, June, 1886); The Revolu- 
 tion impending (Narrative and critical history 
 of America, vol. 6) ; and a review of Palfrey's 
 History of New England (The Nation, July 
 10, 1890). Since his retirement from his office 
 in the Boston Public Library, which he re- 
 signed on October i, 1890, by reason of ad- 
 vancing age and impaired health. Judge Cham- 
 berlain has been engaged on a history of 
 Chelsea, to which he had committed himself 
 by acceptance of a request made by the City 
 Government. 
 
 This collection was begun at a time when 
 
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the present interest, and the competition re- 
 sulting, had not yet developed. As a conse- 
 quence, not only signatures and letters, but 
 historical documents of considerable import- 
 ance, were often to be had for the asking. 
 Even in public offices a disregard of historical 
 papers led to their disposal in ways which put 
 them easily into the hands of collectors. 
 Judge Chamberlain and the late Dr. George 
 H. Moore, of the Lenox Library, both bene- 
 fited, even as early as when at school together 
 in Concord, N. H., by this disregard and pre- 
 vailing indifference. 
 
 Later, association with Dr. John Farmer, 
 the genealogist, at that time employed by the 
 state of New Hampshire to arrange its ar- 
 chives, widened and strengthened Judge 
 Chamberlain's interest. It was his good for- 
 tune, also, to have for correspondents several 
 famous collectors, among others the Rev. Dr. 
 Sprague, of Albany, I. K. Tefft, Esq., of 
 Savannah, and Robert Gilmor, Esq., of Bal- 
 timore. 
 
 Judge Chamberlain has always been a man 
 of affairs. Notwithstanding, however, his 
 devotion to the main business of his life, he 
 has maintained his interest in this collection 
 of autographs and historical manuscripts, 
 until to-day the Chamberlain collection, while 
 it is strong in general interest, is unrivalled 
 in the scope and variety of its material relating 
 to New England. 
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AUTOGRAPHS FROM THE 
 CHAMBERLAIN COLLECTION. 
 
 [Mounted on the south wall of the Room for 
 Younger Readers.] 
 
 Framed Documents; Tablets of autographs, with il- 
 lustrative portraits, prints and text; and Seals. 
 
 The Tablets, as now exhibited, are surmounted by 
 four Documents which marked the beginning of the 
 American Revolution by all the colonies, their declara- 
 tion of independence, their first attempt at making a 
 general government, and its consummation by the Con- 
 stitution of 1787. These are the Address to the King 
 signed by the Congress of 1774, one of the few great 
 papers of that body; the Declaration of Independence; 
 the Articles of Confederation; and the Constitution of 
 the United States. 
 
 To these Documents have been affixed the auto- 
 graphs (only in a few cases in fac-simile) of the signers. 
 These signatures were secured by cutting them from 
 franks, deeds, commissions and other papers of little 
 or no importance. When attached to letters or docu- 
 ments these several groups of autographs are doubt- 
 less found in all great collections; but in the form in 
 which they are seen in the Chamberlain Collection, are 
 probably unique. The first, third and fourth Docu- 
 ments were printed by Judge Chamberlain to conform 
 in size and form with the fac-simile of the Declaration 
 of Independence, in order that, to all of them, might be 
 attached original signatures of their respective signers. 
 
 These four Documents are too long to print entire 
 here. Only titles and the beginning and end of each 
 are given below; but it is intended to present the full 
 text in another form. 
 
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DOCUMENT A. 
 
 Address to the King by the Congress of 1774. 
 
 On December 16, 1773, the inhabitants of Boston 
 assembled at the Old South Church to act about sev- 
 eral cargoes of teas shipped to that port by the East 
 India Company of English merchants, which the Bos- 
 ton people determined should not be landed. Finding 
 that the teas would not be sent back to England, the 
 meeting dissolved and fifty men disguised as Indians 
 went to the wharf where the tea ships lay and threw 
 the teas overboara. When the news of these proceed- 
 ings reached England, Parliament, to punish the people 
 of Boston for these riotous acts, on March 28, 1774, 
 passed the "Boston Bill," which closed the town as a 
 port of entry and caused great distress to the inhab- 
 itants. About the same time Parliament passed a bill 
 radically changing the charter of Massachusetts. These 
 measures afitected all the colonies and aroused their 
 resentment. To express this popular feeling and to 
 pass retaliatory measures, a General Congress of the 
 colonies assembled at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, 
 and continued in session nearly eight weeks, during 
 which it formed a "Plan of Association" against im- 
 portation or consumption of English goods, and against 
 exportation of Colonial products to England. It also 
 prepared addresses to the people of Great Britain, to 
 those of the British colonies, and to the inhabitants of 
 Quebec; passed a Declaration of Colonial rights; and, 
 on October 26, 1774, An Address to the King. Of 
 these papers. Lord Chatham, on moving an address to 
 the King, January 20, 1775, to recall the troops from 
 Boston, said: "When your lordships look at the papers 
 transmitted us from America; when you consider their 
 decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect 
 their cause, and wish to make it your own. For my- 
 self, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading 
 and observation — and it has been my favourite study 
 — I have read through Thucydides, and have studied 
 and admired the master-states of the world — that for 
 solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of 
 conclusion, under such a complication of difficult cir- 
 
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cumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in 
 preferance to the General Congress at Philadelphia." 
 
 The Address is printed in full in Force's Archives: 
 Ser. IV., vol. I., page 934. Below is given the title and 
 the opening lines of the Address, which is omitted by 
 reason of its length. Appended to the framed text are 
 original signatures of all who signed it, save of Henry 
 Middleton, the President of Congress, whose name is 
 printed. 
 
 In Congress, October 26, 1774. "To the 
 King's Most Excellent Majesty." 
 
 Most Gracious Sovereign: We, your Majesty's 
 faithful subjects of the Colonies of New-Hampshire, 
 Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plan- 
 tations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsyl- 
 vania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, 
 on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and 
 South Carolina, in behalf of ourselves and the inhabit- 
 ants of those Colonies who have deputed us to represent 
 them in General Congress, by this our humble Petition, 
 beg leave to lay our Grievances before the Throne. 
 
 ^ ^ 2{C 3)C 3JC 
 
 We therefore most earnestly beseech your Majesty, 
 that your Royal authority and interposition may be used 
 for our relief, and that a gracious Answer may be given 
 to this Petition. 
 
 That your Majesty may enjoy every felicity through 
 a long and glorious Reign, over loyal and happy sub- 
 jects, and that your descendants may inherit your pros- 
 perity and Dominions till time shall be no more, is, and 
 always will be, our sincere and fervent prayer. 
 
 Henry Middleton, President. 
 
 SIGNATURES (read from right to left): New Hamp- 
 shire: John Sullivan; Nathaniel Folsom. Massa- 
 chusetts Bay: Thomas Gushing; Samuel Adams; John 
 Adams; Robert Treat Paine. Rhode Island: Stephen 
 Hopkins; Samuel Ward. Connecticut: Eliphalet 
 Dyer; Roger Sherman; Silas Deane. New York: 
 Philip Livingston; John Alsop; Isaac Low; James 
 Duane; William Floyd; Simon Boerum; John Jay; 
 Henry Wisner. New Jersey: William Livingston 
 
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(with seal); John De Hart; Stephen Crane; Richard 
 Smith. Pennsylvania: Edward Biddle; Joseph Gallo- 
 way; John Dickinson; John Morton; Thomas Mifflin; 
 George Ross; Charles Humphreys. Delaware: Caesar 
 Rodney; Thomas McKean; George Read. Maryland: 
 Mathew Tilghman; Thomas Johnson; William Paca; 
 Samuel Chase. Virginia: Richard Henry Lee; Patrick 
 way; John Dickinson; John Morton; Thomas Mifflin; 
 Henry; George Washington; Edmund Pendleton; 
 Richard Bland; Benjamin Harrison. North Caro- 
 lina: William Hooper; Joseph Hewes; Richard Cas- 
 well. South Carolina: Thomas Lynch; Christopher 
 Gadsden; John Rutledge; Edward Rutledge. 
 
 DOCUMENT B. 
 
 The Declaration of Independence as signed 
 by the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, 
 August 2, 1776. 
 
 When Richard Henry Lee's resolution, "That these 
 United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free 
 and independent states; and that all political connection 
 between them and the State of Great Britain is, and 
 ought to be dissolved," was agreed to by the Congress 
 on July 2, 1776, the battle had been fought and won. 
 This was the day of which John Adams, writing to his 
 wife, July 3, said, "Yesterday the greatest question was 
 decided, which was ever debated in America, and a 
 greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among 
 men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting 
 colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right 
 ought to be, free and independent States,' etc. . . . The 
 second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable 
 epoch in the history of America. ... It ought to be 
 commemorated as the day of deliverance." But July 4, 
 when the Declaration drafted by Jefferson was made, 
 is regarded as the more memorable day, partly, it may 
 have been, because of the belief long prevalent that on 
 that day the Declaration was signed by the members 
 of Congress. But it was otherwise; for on July 4 it 
 was signed only by John Hancock, President, and 
 
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Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress; and in that 
 form ordered to be printed and sent to the several 
 States, and to be proclaimed at the head of the army. 
 On July 19 Congress resolved, That the Declaration 
 passed on the Fourth be fairly engrossed on parchment, 
 with the title, etc.; and that the same, when engrossed, 
 be signed by every member of Congress. The Secret 
 Journal of the Congress for August 2 says, The Decla- 
 ration of Independence, being engrossed and compared 
 at the table, was signed by the members. It is not un- 
 likely that several members were absent on that day 
 and signed shortly after. It is said that McKean did 
 not sign until 1781; but it is certain that he was in 
 Philadelphia on October 13, 1776, and signed a letter 
 as one of a Congressional committee. This letter is in 
 the Chamberlain Collection. Thornton of New Hamp- 
 shire did not take his seat until November 4, and as a 
 matter of course signed after that date. On January 18, 
 "^777^ it was Ordered, that an authenticated copy of the 
 Declaration of Independence, with the names of the 
 members of Congress subscribing to the same, be sent 
 to each of the United States, and they be desired to 
 have the same put upon record. The Boston Public 
 Library possesses one of these copies which seems to 
 have strayed from the archives of some State. The 
 same Library also possesses a somewhat reduced pho- 
 tographic fac-simile of the original in its present con- 
 dition with the autographs nearly faded out, a mishap 
 said to have been caused many years ago by taking a 
 copy by the anastatic process. A specimen of such a 
 copy is here presented with the fac-simile signatures 
 covered by original autographs. No other copy so en- 
 riched by original signatures is known. 
 
 In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous 
 
 Declaration of the thirteen united States of 
 
 America. 
 
 When in the Course of human events, it becomes 
 necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 
 which have connected them with another, and to assume 
 among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal 
 station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's 
 God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of 
 
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mankind requires that they should declare the causes 
 which impel them to the separation. 
 
 ;|c * ^ 3f: >!: 
 
 We therefore the representatives of the United States 
 of America in General Congress assembled, appealing 
 to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of 
 our intentions, do in the name, and by the authority of 
 the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and 
 declare, that these united Colonies are, and of right 
 ought to be, free and independent States; that they are 
 absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and 
 that all political connection between them and the state 
 of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; 
 and that as free and independent States, they have full 
 power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, 
 establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things 
 which independent States may of right do. 
 
 And for the support of this declaration, with a firm 
 reliance on the protection of divine providence, we 
 mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, 
 and our sacred honor. 
 
 SIGNATURES OF THE SIGNERS (in the order of 
 states, from right to left): 
 
 John Hancock. 
 
 Josiah Bartlett. William Whipple. Samuel Adams. 
 John Adams. Robert Treat Paine. Elbridge Gerry. 
 Stephen Hopkins. William Ellery. Roger Sherman. 
 Samuel Huntington. William Williams. Oliver Wol- 
 cott. Matthew Thornton. 
 
 William Floyd. Philip Livingston. Francis Lewis. 
 Lewis Morris. Richard Stockton. John Witherspoon. 
 Francis Hopkinson. John Hart. Abraham Clark. 
 
 Robert Morris. Benjamin Rush. Benjamin Frank- 
 lin. John Morton. George Clymer. James Smith. 
 George Taylor. James Wilson. George Ross. 
 
 Caesar Rodney. George Read. Thomas McKean. 
 Samuel Chase. William Paca. Thomas Stone. Charles 
 Carroll, of Carrollton, 
 
 George Wythe. Richard Henry Lee. Thomas Jef- 
 ferson. Benjamin Harrison. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 
 Francis Lightfoot Lee. Carter Braxton. William 
 Hooper. Joseph Hewes. John Penn. 
 
 Edward Rutledge. Thomas Hayward, Jr. Thomas 
 Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton. Button Gwinnett. Ly- 
 man Hall. George Walton. 
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DOCUMENT C. 
 
 The subject of some sort of a general government 
 for the Colonies engaged the attention of Congress 
 even before it had declared them independent States. 
 It was embraced in Richard Henry Lee's resolutions of 
 June 7, 1776; and on July 11 Congress voted to choose 
 a committee "to prepare and digest the form of a con- 
 federation to be entered into between these colonies." 
 On July 12 this committee reported articles which were 
 drawn up by John Dickinson; but they were not finally 
 adopted until five years after. The limits of this note 
 do not permit an account of the difficulties of sectional 
 interests, commerce, political power, and public lands, 
 and of prejudices, which delayed the establishment of a 
 government even as powerless as that of the Confed- 
 eration proved to be. It was not until March, 1781, — 
 five years after it was contemplated, — that the Con- 
 federation went into effect by the assent of the Mary- 
 land delegates when authorized by the people of that 
 State. As a system of government nothing could have 
 been framed more weak or unsatisfactory. It finally 
 became so inefficient that there was danger lest the 
 States should separate into two or three confederacies, 
 or even set up as independent governments. Happily, 
 however, six years after the adoption of the Articles of 
 Confederation, the Convention which formed the pres- 
 ent Constitution, met at Philadelphia and gave the peo- 
 ple a government which has since continued to afford 
 them satisfaction. Of the signatures appended to this 
 document, those of Adams of Virginia, Penn and Wil- 
 liams of North Carolina, Hutson of South Carolina, 
 and Walton of Georgia, are fac-similes, and with the 
 exception of Hutson, are from the original rolls at 
 Washington. 
 
 Articles of Confederation and Perpetual 
 Union between the States. 
 
 To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE 
 THE UNDERSIGNED DELEGATES OF THE STATES AFFIXED 
 
 TO OUR NAMES, SEND GREETING. — Whercas the dele- 
 gates of the United States of America in Congress as- 
 sembled did on the 15th day of November in the Year 
 
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of our Lord 1777, and in the Second Year of the Inde- 
 pendence of America agree to certain articles of Con- 
 federation and perpetual Union between the States of 
 New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode-island and 
 Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New- York, New- 
 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 
 North-CaroHna, South-Carolina, and Georgia, in the 
 words followmg, viz. : — "Articles of Confederation and 
 Perpetual Union between the States of New-Hampshire, 
 Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plan- 
 tations, Connecticut, New- York, New-Jersey, Pennsyl- 
 vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, 
 South-Carolina, and Georgia." 
 
 Article I. — The Stile of this confederacy shall be, 
 "The United States of America." 
 
 ***** 
 
 Article XIII. — Every state shall abide by the de- 
 terminations of the united states in congress assembled, 
 on all questions which by this confederation is submitted 
 to them. And the Articles of this confederation shall be 
 inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall 
 be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time here- 
 after be made in any of them; unless such alteration be 
 agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be after- 
 wards confirmed by the legislatures of every state. 
 
 And whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of 
 the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we 
 respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and 
 to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confedera- 
 tion and perpetual union, Know Ye that we, the under- 
 signed delegates, by virtue of the power and authority 
 to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in 
 the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, 
 fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of 
 the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, 
 and all and singular the matters and things therein con- 
 tained: And we do further solemnly plight and engage 
 the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall 
 abide by the determinations of the united states in con- 
 gress assembled, on all questions, which by the said 
 confederation are submitted to tbem. And that the arti- 
 cles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states 
 we respectively represent, and that the union shall be 
 perpetual. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our 
 
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hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the state 
 of Pennsylvania the 9th day of July in the year of our 
 Lord, 1778, and in the 3d year of the Independence of 
 America. 
 
 SIGNATURES: 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of New 
 Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett; John Wentworth. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Massa- 
 chusetts Bay: John Hancock; Samuel Adams; El- 
 bridge Gerry; Francis Dana; James Lovell; Samuel 
 Henry Marchant; John Collins. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Rhode 
 Island and Providence Plantation: William EUery; 
 Holten. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Con- 
 necticut: Roger Sherman; Samuel Huntington; Oli- 
 ver Wolcott; Titus Hosmer; Andrew Adams. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of New 
 York: James Duane; Francis Lewis; William Duer; 
 Gouverneur Morris. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of New 
 Jersey: James Witherspoon; Nathaniel Scudder. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Penn- 
 sylvania: Robert Morris; Daniel Roberdeau; Jonathan 
 B. Smith; William Clingan; Joseph Reed. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Dela- 
 ware: Thomas McKean; John Dickinson; Nicholas 
 Van Dyke. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Mary- 
 land: John Hanson; Daniel Carroll. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Vir- 
 ginia: Richard Henry Lee; John Banister; Thomas 
 Adams; John Harvie; Francis Lightfoot Lee. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of North 
 Carolina: John Penn; Cornelius Harnett; John Wil- 
 liams. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of South 
 Carolina: Henry Laurens; William Henry Drayton; 
 John Mathews; Richard Hutson; Thomas Hey ward, Jr. 
 
 On the part and behalf of the State of Geor- 
 gia: John Walton; Edward Telfair; Edward Lang- 
 worthy. 
 
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DOCUMENT D. 
 
 The Convention which framed the Constitution of 
 the United States met at Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, 
 and very early developed diversities of opinions among 
 its members so irreconcilable that more than once its 
 dissolution seemed to be inevitable; and when its work 
 was done, the Constitution was signed by only thirty- 
 nine of the fifty-five members who at any time attended 
 the Convention. 
 
 Besides the reasons for this diversity of opinions and 
 sectional interests mentioned in the note to the Articles 
 of Confederation, were the facts that the call of the 
 Convention limited its power to a revision of those 
 Articles and did not extend to the formation of a new- 
 constitution. Moreover, the Confederacy, by the terms 
 of its formation purported to be a "Perpetual Union." 
 A similar divergence of opinions appeared among the 
 States on the question of its adoption. This was for a 
 long time in doubt, and was finally carried in several of 
 the largest states by slender majorities. North Carolina 
 and Rhode Island at first refused adoption, but finally 
 came into the Union, the former, on November 21, 1789, 
 and the latter. May 29, 1790. It is doubtful whether a 
 majority of the people of all the States was in favor 
 of ratifying the work of the Convention; and it is cer- 
 tain that some of the earliest and ablest leaders of the 
 Revolution, such as Samuel Adams, George Clinton, 
 and Patrick Henry, strenuously opposed its adoption. 
 But it was the best result attainable at the time by the 
 ablest and most patriotic men who had ever assembled 
 in America. 
 
 Constitution of the United States of America. 
 
 We the people of the United States, in order to form 
 a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic 
 Tranquillity, provide for the common Defence, promote 
 the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty 
 to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish 
 this Constitution for the United States of America. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 Section i. All legislative Powers herein granted, 
 
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shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which 
 shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. 
 
 ***** 
 
 The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States 
 shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Consti- 
 tution between the States so ratifying the Same. 
 
 Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent o! 
 the States present the Seventeenth day of September in 
 the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
 Eighty-seven and of the Independence of the United 
 States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof 
 We have hereunto subscribed our names. 
 
 Geo. Washington, Pres. and deputy from Virginia. 
 SIGNATURES (of the Members of the Convention). 
 
 New Hampshire: *John Langdon; *Nicholas Gil- 
 man. Massachusetts: Elbridge Gerry; *Nathaniel 
 Gorham; Caleb Strong; *Rufus King. Connecticut: 
 Oliver Ellsworth; *William Sam. Johnson; *Roger 
 Sherman. New York: *Alexander Hamilton: John 
 Lansing, Jr.; Robert Yates. New Jersey: William C. 
 Houston; *William Paterson; *David Brearley; *Jona- 
 than Dayton; * William Livingston. Pennsylvania: 
 *Benjamin Franklin; *Jared Ingersoll; *Thomas Mif- 
 flin; ^Thomas Fitzsimmons; *George Clymer; *Robert 
 Morris; *Gouverneur Morris; *James Wilson. Dela- 
 ware: *Richard Bassett; *Jacob Broom; *George Read; 
 ♦John Dickinson; *Gunning Bedford, Jr. Maryland: 
 *Daniel Carroll; Luther Martin; John Francis Mercer; 
 *James McHenry; *Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer. 
 Virginia: George Washington; Edmund Randolph; 
 George Mason; George Wythe; James McClurg; *John 
 Blair; *James Madison. North Carolina: *William 
 Blount; Alexander Martin; *Richard Dobbs Spaight; 
 ♦Hugh Williamson; WilHam R. Davie. South Caro- 
 lina: *Charles Pinckney; *Pierce Butler; *Charles 
 Cotesworth Pinckney; *John Rutledge. Georgia: 
 ♦William Few; William Pierce; * Abraham Baldwin; 
 William Houston. 
 
 William Jackson, Secretary. 
 
 * The names marked with an asterisk are those of actual 
 signers of the Constitution. 
 
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TABLET I. 
 
 Sovereigns of Great Britain. James I. to 
 George IV. 1 603-1 830. 
 
 OBVERSE. Autographs: James I., under portraits 
 of Elizabeth and James I.; Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, 
 with portraits; Charles II., James IL, with portraits; 
 William III., Anne (two autographs), with portraits; 
 George I., George II., with portraits; George III., 
 George IV., with portraits. 
 
 REVERSE. Seals of James I. and of the four 
 Georges. Portraits (right to left): Shakespeare; Buck- 
 ingham; Raleigh; Bacon; Hampden; Edward VI.; 
 Mary; Strafford; William IV.; Victoria; Wren; Wal- 
 pole; Newton; Marlborough; Chatham; Charles Ed- 
 ward. 
 
 TABLET IL 
 
 Sovereigns of France. Henry of Navarre to 
 Louis Philippe. 1 589-1848. 
 
 OBVERSE. Autographs: Henry of Navarre, Louis 
 XIII., with portraits; Louis XIV., Louis XV., with 
 portraits; Louis XVI., Buonaparte, with portraits; 
 Louis XVIII., Charles X., with portraits; Louis 
 Philippe, with portrait. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Louis XIII. Medallions of 
 Josephine and Napoleon (emperor). Seals of Buona- 
 parte, first consul, of Louis XIII. and of Louis XIV. 
 
 TABLET III. 
 King and Parliament. 1775. 
 
 Note. The names below embrace only the mate- 
 rial in cut signatures at hand at the time the tablet 
 was prepared. Interesting letters, with signatures of 
 Burke, and of the other distinguished members of both 
 houses of Parliament at the period treated, are to be 
 found in the general collection. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: John Wilkes; Lord Dart- 
 mouth; Edmund Burke; Lord Camden; Colonel Barre; 
 
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Chatham [monument, Westminster Abbey] ; Edward 
 Gibbon. Autographs: George III.; Duke of Richmond; 
 William Pitt, Lord Chatham; Thomas Townshend; 
 Charles Townshend; Lord Camden; Lord Dartmouth; 
 Thomas Pownall [royal governor 1757-60] ; John 
 Wilkes; Lord Thurlow; Lord Loughborough, 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Relative to the siege of 
 Quebec, with old view of Point Levi; Proceedings in 
 Parliament; Biographical notes; Reference to a "Tragic 
 Comedy of Five Acts," based on the action of England 
 against America, published in Philadelphia, in 1776. 
 
 TABLET IV. 
 British Premiers. 1759 to 1800. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Lord North; Augustus 
 Henry, Duke of Grafton; Charles, Marquis of Rock- 
 ingham; William Pitt; George Grenville; Fox; Pitt 
 [1759-1806]; Burke; Sheridan. Autographs: Holies 
 Newcastle, Duke of Newcastle; William Pitt, Lord 
 Chatham; Earl Bute; George Grenville; Lord Rock- 
 ingham; Duke of Grafton; Lord North; Lord Shel- 
 burne; Duke of Portland; William Pitt, Lord Chatham. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: Death of General Wolfe; Me- 
 dallion, Adam Smith; Medallion struck in honor of 
 Lord North; Remains of Pitt's statue. Letter press: 
 Extracts relative to Parliamentary proceedings in 1774, 
 on American affairs; Account of the reception in New 
 York of the news of the repeal of the Stamp act; Bio- 
 graphical notes; Caricatures of Pitt. 
 
 TABLET V. 
 
 British Generals in Chief. 1 755-1 783. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: General Wolfe; Sir Henry 
 Clinton; Sir Guy Carleton; General Wolfe (as shown 
 on Putnam's tavern sign); Lord Amherst. Prints: 
 Wolfe and Montcalm's monument, with text of in- 
 scription; Plan of Fort Edward. Autographs: Edward 
 Braddock; William Shirley; Earl Loudoun; James 
 Wolfe; Lord Amherst; James Abercromby; Sir 
 Thomas Gage; Sir William Howe; Sir Henry Clinton; 
 Sir Guy Carleton. 
 
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REVERSE. Letter press: Extracts relative to the 
 campaigns in Canada, 1757-59; The assault on Quebec, 
 with print of Wolfe's monument, and of the citadel; 
 Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET VI. 
 In the French War. 1 756-1 759. 
 
 OBVERSE, Portrait: Sir William Johnson, with 
 picture of Johnson's Hall, and biographical note [at 
 foot of frame] with picture of Fort Johnson. Prints: 
 The ruins of the citadel of Fort George; Rogers's 
 Rock; Oswego in 1755; Fort Miller fording-place; 
 Morris's house; Major Israel Putnam in British uni- 
 form; Bloody Run. Autographs: Sir William John- 
 son; Sir Guy Johnson; General John Bradstreet; John 
 Stark; Robert Rodgers; Seth Pomeroy; Colonel Eph- 
 raim Williams. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Relative to Governor 
 Shirley's march to Oswego, and works there, with 
 picture of the forts; Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET VII. 
 Governors of New Hampshire. 1680- 1829. 
 
 OBVERSE, Prints: Death of Major Waldron, 
 1689; Mason's title disputed. Seal, 1692. Autographs: 
 John Cutt; Richard Waldron; Edward Cranfield; Wal- 
 ter Barefoote (two autographs, one with signature also 
 of Robert Mason, a prominent man of affairs) ; Joseph 
 Dudley; John Usher; William Partridge; Samuel Al- 
 len; Benning Wentworth; John Wentworth; Mesheck 
 Weare; John Langdon; John Sullivan; Josiah Bartlett; 
 John Taylor Gilman; Jeremiah Smith; William 
 Plumer; Samuel Bell; Levi Woodbury; David Law- 
 rence Morril; Benjamin Pierce; John Bell. 
 
 REVERSE. Commission dated 1778, bearing auto- 
 graph of Governor Mesheck Weare, and E. Thomp- 
 son, secretary, with State seal. 
 
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TABLET VIII. 
 Governors of Massachusetts. 1 629-1 774. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Endecott; Winthrop. Print: 
 Old Province House, Boston. Autographs: John Win- 
 throp; Thomas Dudley; John Endecott; John Haynes 
 [fac-simile] ; Sir Henry Vane; Richard Bellingham; 
 Richard Russell;^ John Leverett; Simon Bradstreet; 
 
 1 Not a governor. 
 
 Edmund Andros; Sir William Phips; William Stough- 
 ton [acting governor] ; Bellomont; Joseph Dudley; Wil- 
 liam Tailer [acting governor] ; Samuel Shute; William 
 Dummer [acting governor]; William Burnet; Jonathan 
 Belcher; William Shirley; Spencer Phips [acting gov- 
 ernor]; Thomas Pownall; Thomas Hutchinson; Sir 
 Francis Bernard; Thomas Gage. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Simon Bradstreet. 
 
 TABLET IX. 
 Governors of Massachusetts. 1 780-1865. 
 
 OBVERSE. Print: Old State House, Boston. 
 Autographs: John Hancock, James Bowdoin, with 
 portraits; Samuel Adams, Increase Sumner, with por- 
 traits; Caleb Strong; James Sullivan; Christopher 
 Gore; Elbridge Gerry; John Brooks; William Eustis; 
 Levi Lincoln; John Davis; Edward Everett; Marcus 
 Morton; George N. Briggs; George S. Boutwell; John 
 H. Clifford; Emory Washburn; Henry J. Gardner; 
 Nathaniel P. Banks; John A. Andrew. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Resolves of the Massa- 
 chusetts House of Representatives, May 5, 1777, look- 
 ing toward the formation of the State Constitution. 
 (Broadside.) 
 
 TABLET X. 
 Presidents of Harvard College. 1 640-1 868. 
 
 OBVERSE. Print: Old view of Harvard College. 
 Autographs: Henry Dunster; Charles Chauncy; Leon- 
 ard Hoar; Urian Oakes [fac-simile] ; John Rogers [fac- 
 simile] ; Increase Mather; Samuel Willard; John Lev- 
 
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erett; Benjamin Wadsworth; Edward Holyoke; Samuel 
 Locke; Samuel Langdon; Joseph Willard; Samuel Web- 
 ber; John T. Kirkland; Josiah Quincy; Edward Everett; 
 Jared Sparks; James Walker; Cornelius C. Felton; 
 Thomas Hill. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Edward Everett, with seal. 
 
 TABLET XI. 
 
 Some of the [Massachusetts] Clergy. [On 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Print: Old picture of Eliot and the Indians. Ex- 
 tract from the Diary of John Eliot (MS.), 1677. 
 Autographs: John Cotton; John Wilson; Cotton 
 Mather; Samuel Willard; Samuel Mather; Benjamin 
 Wadsworth; James Allen; Thomas Prince; Benjamin 
 Colman; Peter Thacher; William Cooper; Thomas 
 Cheever; Ebenezer Pemberton; Christopher Bridge; 
 Andrew Le Mercier [pastor of the French Church in 
 Boston]; P. Daille; Thomas Foxcroft; John Webb; 
 Samuel Myles; Elisha Callender. 
 
 Clerical and Literary. [On Reverse.] 
 
 Autographs: Thomas Bridges; Joshua Gee; Charles 
 Chauncy; Roger Price; Joseph Sewall; Robert Sande- 
 man; Nathaniel Emmons; Timothy Cutler; Mather 
 Byles; Ezra Stiles; Eleazer Wheelock, Presidt. of Dart- 
 mouth College; John Wheelock; George R. Minot; 
 Royall Tyler; Isaiah Thomas; Mercy Warren; Joseph 
 Priestley; Matthew Carey; Nathaniel Bowditch; Wash- 
 ington Irving; William E. Channing; William Cullen 
 Bryant; George Bancroft; John Pierpont; William H. 
 Prescott; Henry Ware, Jr.; James Savage; Richard H. 
 Dana, Jr.; Francis Lieber. 
 
 TABLET XIL 
 
 Speakers of the [Massachusetts] House of 
 Deputies. [On Obverse.] 
 
 Note. Of the autographs below, those from Ha- 
 thorne to Saffin are of speakers of the House under 
 
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the first charter; those from Oakes to Townshend, dur- 
 ing the usurpation under Dudley and Andros, May, 
 i686-April, 1689, and during the Provincial Government 
 assembled June, 1689; those from Bond to Clark, under 
 the second charter. 
 
 Autographs : William Hathorne; Robert Keayne [fac- 
 simile] ; Robert Bridges; Joseph Hills; Richard Russell; 
 Daniel Denison; Daniel Gookin; Humphrey Atherton; 
 Edward Johnson; Thomas Savage; Thomas Clarke 
 [with a seal] ; John Leverett; Richard Waldron; Joshua 
 Hobart [fac-simile] ; Peter Bulkeley; John Richards; 
 Daniel Fisher; Elisha Cooke; John Wayte; Isaac Ad- 
 dington; John Saffin; Thomas Oakes; John Bowles [fac- 
 simile] ; Penn Townsend; William Bond [also a speaker 
 under the provincial government, chosen May 4, 1692] ; 
 Nathaniel Byfield; Nehemiah Jewett; James Converse; 
 John Burrill; John Leverett; Thomas Oliver; John 
 Clark. 
 
 Speakers of the [IMassachusetts] House of 
 Representatives. [On Reverse.] 
 
 Portraits: James Otis; John Hancock. Autographs : 
 Timothy Lindall; William Dudley; John Quincy; John 
 Hobson; Paul Dudley [elected, but negatived by the 
 governor, 1739]; Ebenezer Pomeroy; Samuel Watts; 
 William Faierfeild; Thomas Gushing; Thomas Hutch- 
 inson; Joseph D wight; Thomas Hubbard; Samuel 
 White; James Otis; Timothy Ruggles; Thomas Clapp 
 [speaker pro tem., chosen June, 1764] ; James Otis [jr.] ; 
 John Hancock; James Warren; Thomas Gushing; Sam- 
 uel Freeman; William Cooper; Timothy Danielson; 
 Tristram Dal ton; Robert Treat Paine; John Pitts; John 
 Pickering. 
 
 TABLET XIII. 
 
 Some of the [IVLassachusetts] Court of Assist- 
 ants. [On (Dbverse.] 
 
 Portraits: Endecott; Winthrop. Autographs: John 
 Endecott [served 1630-34. 1636-40. 1645-48] ; Simon 
 Bradstreet [1630-78]; Richard Bellingham [1636-39. 
 1642-52]; Samuel Symonds [1643-72]; Francis Wil- 
 
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loughby [1650-51. 1664]; Thomas Wiggin [1650-64]; 
 Daniel Gookin [1652-75. 1677-86]] Daniel Denison 
 [1653-75- 1677-82]; Simon Willard [1654-75]; Hum- 
 phrey Atherton [1654-61]; Thomas Danforth [1659-78]; 
 William Hathorne [1662-79]; John Leverett [1665-70]: 
 John Pynchon [1665-86] ; Edward Tyng [1668-80] ; Wil- 
 liam Stoughton [1671-86]; Thomas Clarke [1673-77]; 
 Joseph Dudley [1676-83]; Nathaniel Saltonstall [1679- 
 86]; Humphrey Davie [1679-86]; James Russell [1680- 
 86]; Samuel Nowell [1680-86]; John Hull [1680-83]; 
 Bartholomew Gedney [1680-83] ; Thomas Savage [1680- 
 81]; William Browne [1680-83]; Richard Saltonstall 
 [1681-82]; Samuel Appleton [1681-86]; Robert Pike 
 [1682-86]; John Woodbridge [1683-84]; William John- 
 son [1684-86] ; John Hathorne [1684-86] ; Elisha Hutch- 
 inson [1684-86]; John Smith [1686]; John Phillips; 
 Oliver Purchis [1685, elected but declined]; Samuel 
 Cobbett.' 
 
 Inter-charter Judiciary. [On Reverse.] 
 
 Note. The inter-charter period: from the over- 
 throw of the first charter in 1684, through the Andros 
 government, 1686-89, to the grant of the new charter of 
 1691. 
 
 Portrait: Stoughton. Autographs: William Stough- 
 ton; John Pynchon; Wait [Wait Still] Winthrop; Ed- 
 ward Randolph; Richard Wharton; John Usher; John 
 Richards; Simon Lynde; Joseph Dudley; Peter Bulke- 
 ley; Samuel Shrimpton; John Palmer [fac-simile] ; John 
 West; Robert Mason; Bartholomew Gedney; John 
 Hinckes; Francis Nicholson; John Walley; Charles 
 Lidget; Nathaniel Byfield; Benjamin BuUivant, James 
 Graham, George ffarwell, attorney generals; James 
 Sherlock, sheriff. 
 
 TABLET XIV. 
 
 Superior Court of Judicature. 1692-1775. 
 
 [On Obverse.] 
 
 Portraits: Oliver; Lynde; Stoughton; Sewall. 
 Print: Old Town and Court House [Old State 
 
 * Not an assistant. 
 
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House]. Autographs: William Stoughton; Thomas 
 Danforth; Wait [Wait Still] Winthrop; John Richards; 
 Samuel Sewall; Elisha Cooke; John Walley; Isaac Ad- 
 dington; John Saffin; John Hathorne; John Leverett; 
 Jonathan Corwin; Benjamin Lynde; Nathaniel Thomas; 
 Addington Davenport; Paul Dudley; Edmund Quinsey; 
 John Gushing; Jonathan Remington; Richard Salton- 
 stall; Stephen Sewall; Thomas Greaves; Nathaniel 
 Hubbard; Benjamin Lynde; John Gushing; Chambers 
 Russell; Thomas Hutchinson; Peter Oliver; Edmund 
 Trowbridge; Foster Hutchinson; Nathaniel Ropes; 
 William Gushing; Jedediah Foster;^ William Browne. 
 
 Supreme Judicial Court. 1 775-1860. [On 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portraits: John Adams; Theophilus Parsons; Lem- 
 uel Shaw. Autographs: John Adams; William Gush- 
 ing; Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant; William Read; Robert 
 Treat Paine; James Warren; Jedediah Foster; David 
 Sewall; James Sullivan; Francis Dana; Robert Treat 
 Paine; Increase Sumner; Thomas Dawes; Nathan Gush- 
 ing; Theophilus Bradbury; Samuel Sewall; Simeon 
 Strong; George Thacher; Theodore Sedgwick; The- 
 ophilus Parsons; Isaac Parker; Gharles Jackson; Daniel 
 Dewey; Samuel Putnam; Samuel S. Wilde; Levi Lin- 
 coln; Marcus Morton; Lemuel Shaw; Gharles A. 
 Dewey; Samuel Hubbard; Gharles E. Forbes; Theron 
 Metcalf; Richard Fletcher; George Tyler Bigelow; 
 Galeb Gushing; Benjamin F. Thomas; PHny Merrick; 
 E. Rockwood Hoar. 
 
 TABLET XV. 
 
 Court which tried the Witches. 1692. [On 
 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Note. Governor Sir William Phips issued a Com- 
 mission to certain persons, constituting them a Court 
 of Oyer and Terminer, for the purpose of trying per- 
 sons charged with Witchcraft. The court opened in 
 Salem the first week in June, 1692. 
 
 1 Not a judge of the court. 
 
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Portrait: Stoughton. Autographs: William Stough- 
 ton; Nathaniel Saltonstall; Jonathan Corwin; John 
 Richards; Bartholomew Gedney; Wait [Wait Still] 
 Winthrop; Samuel Sewall; Peter Sergeant; Thomas 
 Newton. 
 
 Judges and Judge-Advocates in Admiralty. 
 1 700-1 775. [On Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: James Otis, Jr. Autographs: Wait [Wait 
 Still] Winthrop; John Phillips;' William Atwood; 
 Thomas Newton; Roger Mompesson; Nathaniel By- 
 field; James Menzeis; Robert Auchmuty; Nathaniel 
 Hubbard; Chambers Russell; George Cradock; Wil- 
 liam Read; Robert Auchmuty; Benjamin Lynde; John 
 Valentine; William Shirley; William Bollan; James 
 Otis; Robert Auchmuty; John Sewall; Samuel Fitch. 
 
 TABLET XVI. 
 
 Attorney Generals. 1692-1863. [On Ob- 
 verse.] 
 
 Portraits: Sullivan; Choate. Autographs: Anthony 
 Checkley; Paul Dudley; Thomas Newton; John Over- 
 ing; Addington Davenport, jr. [chosen attorney gen- 
 eral in 1720 and again in 1723, but it is not certain that 
 he acted]; John Read; William Brattle; Jeremiah Grid- 
 ley; James Otis; W. Sever^; Edmund Trowbridge; 
 Jonathan Sewall; Samuel Quincy [appointed solicitor 
 general to succeed Sewall]; Robert Treat Paine; James 
 Sullivan; Barnabas Bidwell; Perez Morton; J. T. Aus- 
 tin; John H. Clifford; Rufus Choate: Stephen H. Phil- 
 lips; Dwight Foster; Chester I. Reed. 
 
 Some Massachusetts Attorneys. 1 692-1 850. 
 [On Reverse.] 
 
 Note. The autographs below are of persons classi- 
 fied as attorneys by authority which seemed to be suf- 
 ficient at the time of the preparation of this tablet. 
 
 * Not a judge. 
 
 2 Not an attorney general. 
 
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Autographs: Giles Masters; J. Hearne; Oakes An- 
 gler; Nathaniel Newdigate; Isaac Little; Simon Davis; 
 Fr. Lawrence; Nathaniel Blagrove; E. Bisbe; Pelham 
 Winslow; Joseph Marion; Sampson S. Blowers; Ben- 
 jamin Kent; John Sprague; Edward Pope; James 
 Hovey; Daniel Farnham; Joseph Dudley; Robert Rob- 
 inson; Richard Dana; Daniel Leonard; B. Gridley; 
 Andrew Cazneau; William Pynchon; A. Willard; Seth 
 Padelford; Samuel Swift; Jona. Mason; Isaac Mans- 
 field; Shearja. Bourne; Moses Bliss; William Langdon; 
 Benjamin Lincoln; R. G. Amory; Dudley A. Tyng; 
 Christopher Gore; John Lowell; Harrison G. Otis; 
 Samuel Dexter; William Tudor; Caleb Strong; George 
 R. Minot; Timothy Bigelow; Thomas O. Selfridge; 
 John Davis; William Prescott; Samuel Hoar, Jr.; Lev- 
 erett Saltonstall; Benjamin Rand; Joseph Bell; Charles 
 G. Loring; Franklin Dexter; Robert Rantoul, Jr.; 
 Charles Sumner; Charles Pelham Curtis. 
 
 TABLET XVII. 
 
 Secretaries of State in Massachusetts. 1630- 
 
 1846. [On Obverse.] 
 
 Portraits: Samuel Adams; General Benjamin Lin- 
 coln. Autographs: Simon Bradstreet; Increase No well; 
 Robert Bridges [with John Endecott's signature] ; Ed- 
 ward Rawson; Edward Randolph; John West [deputy 
 secretary] ; Isaac Addington; Joseph Marion [pro tem.] ; 
 Joseph Hiller; Samuel Woodward [fac-simile] ; Josiah 
 Willard; Simon Frost [pro tem.]; Andrew Oliver 
 Thomas Clarke [pro tem.] ; Thomas Flucker; John Cot- 
 ton [pro tem.] ; Benjamin Lincoln; Joseph Palmer [pro 
 tem.]; Ichabod Goodwin; Samuel Freeman; Isaac 
 Stone, Jr.; John Pigeon; James Warren [pro tem.]; 
 William Cooper; Perez Morton [pro tem.]; Samuel 
 Adams [qualified Aug., 1775, and designated Mr. Mor- 
 ton his deputy] ; John Lowell [pro tem.] ; John Avery. 
 
 ]\lassachusetts in the Congress of 1765. [At 
 New York.] [On Reverse.] 
 
 Note. The Congress of 1765, otherwise the famous 
 Stamp Act Congress. This body adopted a Declara- 
 
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tion of Rights and Grievances of the Colonies; an ad- 
 dress to the king; a memorial to the House of Lords, 
 and a petition to the House of Commons. "For a clear, 
 accurate, and calm statement," says Judge Chamber- 
 lain in the Narrative and Critical History of America, 
 "these papers were never surpassed; nor, until the ap- 
 pearance of the Declaration of Independence, was any 
 advance made from the ground taken in them." Among 
 other men composing the Congress, who became cele- 
 brated during the Revolution, were Johnson and Dyer 
 of Connecticut, the Livingstons of New York, McKean 
 and Rodney of Delaware, Tilghman of Maryland, Dick- 
 inson of Pennsylvania, Rutledge, Gadsden and Lynch 
 of South Carolina. Timothy Ruggles, better known 
 as Brigadier Ruggles, although the president of the 
 Congress, did not concur in its action, and finally be- 
 came a pronounced Loyalist. The Congresses of 1774 
 and 177s, and the Constitutional Convention of 1787, 
 at Philadelphia, are seen on the four great Documents 
 above the Tablets. 
 
 Autographs: S. Welles; John Chandler; Thomas 
 Hutchinson; Oliver Partridge; John Worthington; 
 James Otis; Timothy Ruggles. 
 
 TABLET XVIII. 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 OBVERSE. Autographs: Nathaniel Morton [histo- 
 rian] ; George Cartwright [of the Commission in 1665] ; 
 Robert Carr [of the Commission in 1665] ; Governor 
 Robert Nicolls [Nichols] [Commission, 1665]; Samuel 
 Mavericke [Commission, 1665]; John West [Deputy 
 Secretary under Andros] ; Edward Randolph [Secretary 
 under Andros] ; Major-General Daniel Gookin; Samuel 
 Green [printer]; Edward Mitchelson; Thomas Savage; 
 Edv/ard Rawson [Secretary of the Mass. Col., 1650, to 
 the abrogation of the first charter] ; Thomas Danforth 
 [Deputy Governor of Mass., 1679-86] ; Samuel Symonds 
 [Deputy Governor, 1673-78] ; John Carver [perhaps of 
 Duxbury, but not the Governor of Plymouth Col.] ; 
 John Worthington; Samuel Welles [Convention of 
 1754]; Adam Winthrop; Thomas Hinckley [Governor, 
 Plymouth Col., 1681-92]; Winthrop Hilton [of New 
 
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Hampshire]; Dr. Zabdiel Boylston; Josiah Franklin 
 [chandler, father of Benjamin Franklin] ; Jeremy Dum- 
 mer; Thomas Hancock; Thomas Hubbard; Ezekiel 
 Hersey; General John Winslow; Thomas L. Winthrop 
 [Lieut. Governor Mass., 1826-32]; Joseph Story; Gov- 
 ernor Thomas Hutchinson; John Chandler [Conven- 
 tion of 1754]- 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Relative to Puritan set- 
 tlements, with ancient map of Massachusetts Bay; Fac- 
 oine tree shilling, and of the first American paper 
 simile of hand-writing of Pilgrims; Fac-simile of the 
 money. 
 
 TABLET XIX. 
 
 In tlie Continental Congress. 1 774-1 789. 
 
 OBVERSE. Picture of Continental Congress. Por- 
 traits: John Adams; Samuel Adams. Autographs : John 
 Adams; Samuel Adams; Thomas Gushing; John Han- 
 cock; Robert Treat Paine; Elbridge Gerry; James Lov- 
 ell; Francis Dana; Rufus King; Theodore Sedgwick; 
 Samuel A. Otis; George Thatcher [Thacher] ; Samuel 
 Holten; George Partridge; Samuel Osgood; Artemas 
 Ward; Jonathan Jackson; John Lowell; James Sulli- 
 van; Nathaniel Gorham; Stephen Higginson; Nathan 
 Dane. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: John Hancock. 
 
 TABLET XX. 
 Senators from Massachusetts. 1 789-1849. 
 
 OBVERSE. Picture of the old capitol. Autographs: 
 Caleb Strong; Tristram Dalton; George Cabot; Theo- 
 dore Sedgwick; Samuel Dexter [this signature is of the 
 father]; Benjamin Goodhue; Jonathan Mason; Dwight 
 Foster; John Quincy Adams; James Lloyd, Jr.; Timo- 
 thy Pickering; J. B. Varnum; Christopher Gore; Har- 
 rison G. Otis; Prentiss Mellen; E. H. Mills; Eli P. 
 Ashmun; Nathaniel Silsbee; Daniel Webster; J. Davis; 
 Isaac C Bates; Edward Everett; Rufus Choate. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Daniel Webster. 
 
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TABLET XXI. 
 Massachusetts Patriots. 
 
 OBVERSE. Copy, reduced, of a caricature of "Vir- 
 tual Representation, 1775." Prints: Hancock's house; 
 the "Old South." Autographs: David Cheever; Isaac 
 Lothrop; Elbridge Gerry; Perez Morton; D. Jeflfries: 
 Henry Hill; Oliver Wendell; William Cooper; Na- 
 thaniel Appleton; Joseph Hawley; Jonathan Mason; 
 Tosiah Waters; John Winthrop; John Pitts; Henderson 
 Inches; William Phillips; Nathaniel Barber; Joseph 
 Palmer; Edmund Quincy; James Prescott; John Scol- 
 lay. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Action of Virginia on the 
 Stamp Act; Patrick Henry's speech, with sketches of 
 Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson; Action of Vir- 
 ginia in 1776. Prints: Hanover Court House; Great 
 seal of Virginia. Autographs: James Otis; General 
 John Morin Scott. 
 
 TABLET XXII. 
 Some of the Loyalists. 
 
 OBVERSE. Prints: Tryon's Palace; Allegorical 
 picture, entitled "Reception of the American Loyalists 
 in England;" Dunmore's Palace. Portraits: Governor 
 Hutchinson; James Rivington. Autographs: Governor 
 Thomas Hutchinson; Governor Lord Dunmore; Tim- 
 othy Ruggles; Colonel John Dalrymple; Governor 
 William Tryon; Oxenbridge Thacher [here by mistake, 
 he was a Patriot]; Governor Francis Bernard; Andrew 
 Oliver; William Brattle. 
 
 The above list is verv imperfect, including only such names 
 as were on hand when the tablet was made up. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Respecting departure of 
 Loyalists from Boston; Relative to William Franklin, 
 Royal Governor of New Jersey, Governor Tryon, Gov- 
 ernor Lord Dunmore, of Virginia, and to other Loyal- 
 ist leaders. 
 
TABLET XXIII. 
 
 The Court and Counsel who tried Captain 
 Preston and Soldiers. 
 
 Note. Captain Preston was tried Oct. t.'j, 1770, and 
 William Wemms and others, soldiers of the 29th Regi- 
 ment of Foot, were tried Nov. 27, 1770, for the murder 
 of Crispus Attucks and others, March 5, 1770, called the 
 Boston Massacre. 
 
 The plate on the obverse and the engraving on the 
 reverse were both made by Paul Revere, and their dif- 
 ference is the result of the demands of pictorial repre- 
 sentation. 
 
 OBVERSE. PAUL REVERE'S PLAN OF THE 
 SCENE OF THE BOSTON MASSACRE, USED 
 AT THE TRIAL. 
 
 REVERSE. Print: Paul Revere's engraving of the 
 Massacre. Autographs: Benjamin Lynde; John Cush- 
 ing; Peter Oliver; Edmund Trowbridge; Jonathan 
 Sewall, attorney general; Samuel Winthrop, clerk; 
 Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Quincy, counsel for the 
 Crown; John Adams, Josiah Quincy, Jr., Sampson Sal- 
 ter Blowers, counsel for the soldiers. 
 
 TABLET XXIV. 
 
 Boston Massacre. 1770. Soldiers' Petition. 
 
 OBVERSE. Addressed, To the Honorable Judges 
 of the Superior Court. Asking for their trial at the 
 same time with that of their Captain, dated. Goal, Octo- 
 ber 24, 1770, signed: Hugh White, James Hartigan, 
 Matthew Killroy (his mark). 
 
 REVERSE. Notification of town meeting, March 
 12, 1770, to consider, among other matters enumerated, 
 "what steps may be further necessary for obtaining a 
 particular account of all proceedings relative to the 
 Massacre in King street," and "whether the town will 
 take any measures that a public monument may be 
 erected on the spot where the tragical scene was acted." 
 No monument has been erected here, but the site is 
 marked by a circle of paving in the streetway near the 
 
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north-easterly corner of State and Exchange streets, 
 where the soldiers were drawn up and from which 
 they fired on the mob. 
 
 TABLET XXV. 
 Some of the Tea Party. 1773. 
 
 Note. The tea party was quite large, and those 
 composing it were disguised. For obvious reasons 
 their names were concealed for many years, nor is any 
 list of them now known with certainty. Those below 
 are reputed to have been of the tea party. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Kennison; Hewes. Auto- 
 graphs: Joseph Lee; Paul Revere; Thomas Melvill; 
 Edward Procter; Moses Grant; Jonathan Williams. 
 Letter press: Incidents of the "tea party," with list of 
 those assumed to have been in the party; Copies of 
 hand bills. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Historical note on the 
 Liberty Tree, with picture; Some facts respecting the 
 Continental Lottery of 1776, with fac-simile of ticket; 
 The English stamp of 1765; Note on the Province 
 House; The Mutiny Act. 
 
 TABLET XXVI. 
 Committee of Safety. July 13, 1775. 
 
 OBVERSE. Letter press: Letter of the Provincial 
 Congress, April 30, 1775; The committee of 1774. Auto- 
 graphs: John Hancock; Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr.; 
 Richard Devens; Samuel Holten; Joseph Palmer; 
 Abraham Watson; Azor Orne; Benjamin Greenleaf; 
 Nathan Cushing; Enoch Freeman; B. White. 
 
 REVERSE. Old view of Boston from Dorchester 
 Heights; Faneuil Hall, and the ancient Feather Store 
 in old Dock Square. 
 
 TABLET XXVIL 
 
 Washington and the Kings. 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Washington; Louis XVL; 
 
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George III. ("figure, usual appearance of the King 
 about 1776"); Queen Charlotte, from a print by Wor- 
 lidge; Seals of George II. and George III.; Print of 
 Great Seal of George III., the purse and Chancellor's 
 mace. Autographs: George Washington; George II. 
 of England; Louis XV. of France; George III. of Eng- 
 land; Louis XVI. of France. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: Residence of the Washington 
 family; Tomb of the mother of Washington; Site of 
 Washington's birthplace; Pohick church; Washington's 
 family vault; Ruins of Potomac church; Mt. Vernon; 
 Washington's writing-case, sword and staff; Washing- 
 ton's bier; The sarcophagus of Washington; Statue of 
 Washington; Arms of the Washington family. 
 
 TABLET XXVIII. 
 Patriots of the Revolution. 
 
 Note. The names below, it is evident, are only 
 those of a few of the eminent patriots of the Revolu- 
 tion, and all the colonies are not represented. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: James Otis, Jr., and grouped 
 on either side, J. Rutledge, Henry, Hancock, Adams, 
 Trumbull, E. Rutledge. Autographs: John Hancock; 
 Josiah Quincy, Jr.; James Otis; Joseph Warren; John 
 Adams; Samuel Adams; Thomas Gushing; James War- 
 ren; John Langdon; Jonathan Trumbull; John Jay; 
 Robert R. Livingston; Robert Morris; George Wash- 
 ington; Patrick Henry; Edmund Pendleton; Thomas 
 Jefferson; Edward Rutledge. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: Faneuil Hall, with autograph 
 of Peter Faneuil. Letter press: Biographical notes; 
 Sketch of Faneuil Hall. 
 
 TABLET XXIX. 
 
 At Lexington and Concord. 1775. 
 
 OBVERSE. Prints: Battle ground at Concord; 
 Monument at Lexington; Monument at Concord; 
 Colonel Barrett's house; British flag; Plan of the 
 movements at Concord; Clark's house, Lexington. 
 
 45 
 
Portrait: Earl Percy. Autographs: Duke of Northum- 
 berland [Lord Percy]; Lt. Colonel Francis Smith; 
 John Buttrick; Joseph Hosmer; Paul Revere; James 
 Barrett; Thomas Nixon; Timothy Pickering, Jr.; Rev. 
 Jonas Clarke. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Jonathan Harrington, at the 
 age of ninety, with signature [fac-simile] . Letter press: 
 Relative to the encounter at Lexington, and kindred 
 matters; Names of the American killed and wounded. 
 
 Note. An original signature of Harrington is in the 
 volume devoted to Lexington, Concord and Bunker 
 Hill, which forms a part of the general Chamberlain 
 Collection. 
 
 TABLET XXX. 
 
 At Bunker Hill. 1775. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Warren; Putnam; Stark. 
 Autographs: Sir William Howe; Major John Small, 
 major of brigade and captain in the North British fusil- 
 leers; General Joseph Warren; Colonel William Pres- 
 cott; General Israel Putnam; General John Stark; 
 General Seth Pomeroy; Colonel Richard Gridley; Gen- 
 eral Henry Knox. 
 
 REVERSE. Map: Action on Breed's Hill, June 17, 
 1775. Autographs: Colonel Henry Jackson; Colonel 
 Loammi Baldwin; Colonel J. Brewer; Captain Seth 
 Washburn; Paul Dudley Sargent; Colonel John 
 Brooks; Colonel Ebenezer Bridge; Colonel John 
 Nixon; Captain Hugh Maxwell; Michael McClary. 
 Letter press: Incidents of the battle; Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET XXXL 
 
 First Council of War. 1775. 
 
 OBVERSE. Prints: Washington Medal; Washing- 
 ton Elm; Washington's headquarters; View of Charles- 
 town in 1775; View of the lines of Boston Neck, from 
 an English print, 1777. Portraits: General Joseph Reed; 
 General Charles Lee. Autographs: George Washing- 
 ton; Artemas Ward; Charles Lee; Israel Putnam [not a 
 
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signature]; John Thomas; Joseph Spencer; John Sulli- 
 van; Nathaniel Greene; William Heath; Thomas Mif- 
 flin; Joseph Reed. 
 
 REVERSE. Old view of Boston from Dorchester 
 Heights; Map of Boston with its environs, 1776; Rox- 
 bury Fort. Letter press: Biographical notes. 
 
 The above list is very imperfect, including only such names 
 as were on hand when the tablet v/as made up. 
 
 TABLET XXXII. 
 
 At Ticonderoga. 1775. 
 
 OBVERSE. Prints: Ticonderoga at sunset; Ar- 
 nold's residence; Tomb of Ethan Allen. Letter press: 
 Biographical note on Ethan Allen. Autographs: Arthur 
 St. Clair; Ethan Allen; Seth Warner; Benedict Arnold. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Relative to Crown Point 
 and Ticonderoga, and the Green Mountain Boys; The 
 attack on Ticonderoga; The evolution of Vermont; 
 Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET XXXIII. 
 
 In Canada. 1 775-1 776. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: General Sullivan; General 
 Montgomery; General Wooster; Colonel Willett. 
 Prints: Plan of Quebec, upper town; St. John's Gate; 
 Place where Arnold was wounded; Montgomery's mon- 
 ument; Cape Diamond. Autographs : Governor Fred- 
 erick Haldimand; Richard Montgomery; John Sulli- 
 van; Benedict Arnold; David Wooster; Philip Schuy- 
 ler; Henry Dearborn; Aaron Burr; Marinus Willett; 
 Henry Livingston. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: Fort at Chambly; Montreal 
 and its walls in 1760, old French print; Map of the 
 route through the wilderness. Letter press: Incidents; 
 Biographical notes; Describing the spot where Mont- 
 gomery was killed. 
 
 TABLET XXXIV. 
 At Stony Point. 1779. 
 OBVERSE. Prints: Wayne's residence; Medals; 
 
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Wayne's monument. Portrait: Wayne. Map of Stony 
 Point and Verplanck's Point. Letter press: Description 
 ot the medals; Biographical note; Anecdotes. Auto- 
 graphs: Anthony Wayne; Colonel de Fleury. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Major Andre. Prints: Smith's 
 house; Robinson's house; Paulding's monument and 
 St. Peter's church; Van Wart's monument; Captors's 
 medal; Washington's headquarters at Tappan; Map 
 showing the scene of Arnold's Treason. 
 
 TABLET XXXV. 
 At Saratoga. 1777. 
 
 OBVERSE. Prints: Medals. Portraits: Armstrong; 
 Lamb; Burgoyne; Gates; Morgan. Autographs: Fried- 
 rich L [Landgraf] F [Fiirst] Hessen [Duke of Hesse]; 
 General John Burgoyne; General William Phillips; 
 Baron Riedesel; General Horatio Gates; General Ben- 
 jamin Lincoln; General Anthony Wayne; General 
 Daniel Morgan; General Enoch Poor; General Joseph 
 Cilley; General William Whipple; General William 
 Hull; General James Wilkinson; General Henry Dear- 
 born; General John Armstrong, Jr. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: Bemis Heights, with map; The 
 battle ground. Letter press: Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET XXXVL 
 In the Southern Campaigns. 1 780-1 781. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Greene; Moultrie; Lincoln; 
 Sumter; Rawdon; Tarleton; Pinckney. Autographs: 
 Lord Cornwallis; John Macpherson; Hastings (Lord 
 Rawdon, Marquis of Hastings); Banastre Tarleton; 
 William Moultrie; Benjamin Lincoln; Horatio Gates; 
 Nathaniel Greene; Armand, Marquis de la Rouarie; 
 Henry Lee; Thomas Sumter; Daniel Morgan; Otho H. 
 Williams; William Smallwood; John Eager Howard; 
 Thomas Pinckney; Andrew Pickens. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Biographical notes. 
 
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TABLET XXXVII. 
 Andre and his Court Martial. 1780. 
 
 OBVERSE. Print: West Point in 1780. Portraits: 
 General Robert Howe; Major Andre; Major Tall- 
 madge; Lord Stirling; General Steuben; General Ar- 
 nold. Autographs: Benedict Arnold; Alexander Ham- 
 ilton; Benjamin Tallmadge; Beverly Robinson; John 
 Lamb; Nathaniel Greene; Lord Stirling; Arthur St. 
 Clair; Marquis de Lafayette; Robert Howe; Baron 
 Steuben; Samuel H. Parsons; James Clinton; Henry 
 Knox; John Glover; John Paterson; Edward Hand; 
 John Stark; Jedediah Huntington; John Laurance. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Relative to Arnold's Trea- 
 son, and the case of Andre; Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET XXXVIIL 
 At Yorktown. 1781. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Medallion, Washington and 
 Lafayette; Rochambeau; Lafayette; Lord Howe; Corn- 
 wallis; D'Estaing. Autographs : Lord Cornwallis; George 
 Washington; Count Rochambeau; Admiral d'Estaing; 
 Admiral Lord Howe; Benjamin Lincoln; Lafayette; 
 Arthur St. Clair; Alexander Hamilton; Duke de 
 Lauzun; Alexander Scammell; Sebastian Bauman. 
 Letter press: Biographical notes. 
 
 REVERSE. Portraits: De Lauzun; Count de Bar- 
 ras; Baron Viomenil; Deuxponts; Count Mathieu Du- 
 mas. Prints: Position of English and French fleets 
 previous to the action. Map of the siege of Yorktown, 
 October, 1781. View up the river. Picture of the Brit- 
 ish surrendering their arms to General Washington 
 (1781). 
 
 TABLET XXXIX. 
 Naval Commanders. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Admiral Hopkins; Commo- 
 dore Barney; Nicholas Biddle; Commodore Dale; 
 Commodore Barry. Autographs: Ezekiel Hopkins; 
 
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Hector McNeil; John Paul Jones; John Barry; John 
 F. Williams; Joshua Barney; Alexander Murray; 
 Thomas Truxton. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: The Jersey Prison ship; Ad- 
 miralty seal; Map of operations upon Rhode Island in 
 1778; First naval flags; American floating battery. 
 Letter press: Relative to naval engagements; Biograph- 
 ical notes. 
 
 TABLET XL. 
 Presidents of the Old Congress. 1 774-1 789. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Peyton Randolph; John Jay; 
 Arthur St. Clair; Thomas Mifflin; Henry Laurens; 
 Charles Thomson, secretary. Autographs : Peyton Ran- 
 dolph; Henry Middleton [fac-simile] ; John Hancock; 
 Henry Laurens; John Jay; Samuel Huntington; 
 Thomas McKean; John Hanson; Elias Boudinot; 
 Thomas Mifflin; Richard Henry Lee; Nathaniel Gor- 
 ham; Arthur St. Clair; Cyrus Griffin; Charles Thom- 
 son, secretary. 
 
 REVERSE. Prints: State House at Annapolis; 
 Carpenter's Hall; Congress House; State House at 
 Philadelphia as it appeared in 1774; Walnut street front 
 of Philadelphia State House in 1776. Letter press: Bio- 
 graphical notes; Extracts relative to Carpenter's Hall, 
 and the character of the men who composed the First 
 Congress. 
 
 TABLET XLI. 
 Diplomatists of the Revolution. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Franklin; Deane; Gerard; 
 Count de Vergennes; Livingston. Autographs: Grand: 
 Benjamin Franklin; Silas Deane; Arthur Lee; Robert 
 H. Livingston; Gerard; J. Necker; De Castries; De 
 Vergennes; Saint Germain; Beaumarchais; Leray de 
 Chaumont; Henry Laurens. v 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Biographical notes; Ex- 
 tracts relative to various diplomatic proceedings. 
 
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TABLET XLII. 
 
 Presidents of the United States. 1789-1857. 
 
 OBVERSE. Prints: The Capitol; President's house. 
 Autographs: George Washington, John Adams, with por- 
 traits; Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, with portraits; 
 James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, with portraits; An- 
 drew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, with portraits; Wil- 
 liam Henry Harrison^ John Tyler, with portraits; James 
 K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, with portraits; Millard Fill- 
 more, Franklin Pierce, with portraits. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Washington (with seal). 
 
 TABLET XLIIL 
 Washington and his Cabinet. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: Washington; Knox; Hamil- 
 ton; Habersham; Pickering. Print: Federal Hall. Offi- 
 cial seals of Washington and Knox. Autographs: 
 George Washington; Thomas Jefferson [Secretary of 
 State]; Edmund Randolph [Attorney General; Secre- 
 tary of State] ; Alexander Hamilton [Treasury] ; Oliver 
 Wolcott [Treasury]; Henry Knox [War]; Timothy 
 Pickering [Postmaster General; War; State] ; James 
 MeHenry [War]; Joseph Habersham [Postmaster 
 General]; Samuel Osgood [Postmaster General]; Wil- 
 liam Bradford [Attorney General]; Charles Lee [At- 
 torney General]. 
 
 REVERSE. Portraits: Washington; Adams; La- 
 fayette; Franklin; Jefferson; Boudinot; Jay; Sherman; 
 Hancock; Joel Barlow; Daniel Humphrey [should be 
 David Humphreys]; General Clinton; John Dickinson; 
 Aaron Ogden; Gouverneur Morris. Prints: Lafayette's 
 tomb; Monticello; Schuyler's headquarters. Seal of 
 John Adams, 1775. Autographs: John Hancock, 1775; 
 John Adams, 1825. Letter Press: Biographical notes; 
 Anecdotes of Hamilton. 
 
 TABLET XLIV. 
 Washington's Administration. 1789-97. [On 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Washington. Autographs: George Wash- 
 Si 
 
ington; John Adams [Vice President]; Thomas Jeffer- 
 son [Secretary of State] ; Edmund Randolph [Attorney 
 General ; State] ; Alexander Hamilton [Treasury] ; Oli- 
 ver Wolcott [Treasury] ; Henry Knox [War] ; Timothy 
 Pickering [Postmaster General; War; State]; James 
 McHenry [War] ; Samuel Osgood [Postmaster Gen- 
 eral]; Joseph Habersham [Postmaster General]; Wil- 
 liam Bradford [Attorney General] ; Charles Lee [At- 
 torney General]. 
 
 Adams's Administration. 1 797-1801. [On 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Adams. Autographs: John Adams; Thomas 
 Jefferson [Vice-President] ; Timothy Pickering [State] ; 
 John Marshall [State]; Oliver Wolcott [Treasury]; 
 Samuel Dexter [Treasury; War]; James McHenry 
 [War] ; Roger Griswold [War] ; George Cabot [Navy] ; 
 Benjamin Stoddert [Navy] ; Joseph Habersham [Post- 
 master General]; Charles Lee [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET XLV. 
 
 Jefferson's Administration. 1801-1809. [On 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Jefferson. Autographs: Thomas Jefferson; 
 Aaron Burr [Vice-President] ; George Clinton [Vice- 
 President] ; James Madison [State] ; Samuel Dexter 
 [Treasury]; Albert Gallatin [Treasury]; Henry Dear- 
 born [War] ; Benjamin Stoddert [Navy] ; Robert Smith 
 [Navy]; Jacob Crowninshield [Navy]; Joseph Haber- 
 sham [Postmaster General] ; Gideon Granger [Post- 
 master General] ; Levi Lincoln [Attorney General] ; 
 John Breckenridge [Attorney General] ; Caesar A. Rod- 
 ney [Attorney General]. 
 
 IVIadison's Administration. 1809-17. [On 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Madison. Autographs: James Madison; 
 George Clinton [Vice-President]; Elbridge Gerry 
 
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[Vice-President]; Robert Smith [State]; James Mon- 
 roe [State; War]; Albert Gallatin [Treasury]; George 
 W. Campbell [Treasury] ; Alexander J. Dallas [Treas- 
 ury] ; William Eustis [War] ; John Armstrong [War] ; 
 William H. Crawford [Treasury] ; Paul Hamilton 
 [Navy] ; William Jones [Navy] ; B. W. Crowninshield 
 [Navy]; Gideon Granger [Postmaster General]; Re- 
 turn J. Meigs [Postmaster General] ; Csesar A. Rodney 
 [Attorney General] ; William Pinkney [Attorney Gen- 
 eral] ; Richard Rush [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET XLVI. 
 
 Monroe's Administration. 1817-25. [On 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Portrait: James Monroe. Autographs: James Mon- 
 roe; Daniel D. Tompkins [Vice-President]; John 
 Quincy Adams [State]; William H. Crawford [Treas- 
 ury] ; George Graham [War] ; Isaac Shelby [War] ; 
 John C. Calhoun [War] ; B. W. Crowninshield [Navy] ; 
 John Rodgers [Navy] ; Smith Thompson [Navy] ; Sam- 
 uel L. Southard [Navy]; Return J. Meigs [Postmaster 
 General] ; John McLean [Postmaster General] ; Rich- 
 ard Rush [Attorney General] ; William Wirt [Attorney 
 General]. 
 
 Adams's Administration. 1825-29. [On 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Adams. Autographs: John Quincy Adams; 
 John C. Calhoun [Vice-President] ; Henry Clay [State] ; 
 Richard Rush [Treasury]; James Barbour [War]; 
 Peter B. Porter [War]; Samuel L. Southard [Navy]; 
 John McLean [Postmaster General]; William Wirt 
 [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET XLVII. 
 
 Jackson's Administration. 1829-37. [On 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Jackson. Autographs: Andrew Jackson; 
 John C Calhoun [Vice-President] ; Martin Van Buren 
 
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[State; Vice-President]; Edward Livingston [State]; 
 Louis McLane [Treasury; State; Treasury]; John 
 Forsyth [State] ; Samuel B. Ingram [Treasury] ; Wil- 
 liam J. Duane [Treasury] ; Roger B. Taney [Attorney 
 General; Treasury] ; Levi Woodbury [Navy; Treasury] ; 
 John H. Eaton [War] ; Lewis Cass [War] ; John Branch 
 [Navy]; Mahlon Dickerson [Navy]; William T. Barry 
 [Postmaster General] ; Amos Kendall [Postmaster Gen- 
 eral] ; John McPherson Berrien [Attorney General] ; 
 Benjamin F. Butler [War; Attorney General]. 
 
 Van Buren's Administration. 1837-41. [On 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Van Buren. Autographs: Martin Van 
 Buren; Richard M. Johnson [Vice-President]; John 
 Forsyth [State] ; Levi Woodbury [Treasury] ; Joel R. 
 Poinsett [War]; Mahlon Dickerson [Navy]; James K. 
 Paulding [Navy] ; Amos Kendall [Postmaster Gen- 
 eral] ; John M. Niles [Postmaster General] ; Benjamin 
 F. Butler [Attorney General] ; Felix Grundy [Attorney 
 General]; Henry D. Gilpin [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET XLVIII. 
 
 Harrison's Administration. 1841. [On Ob- 
 verse.] 
 
 Portrait: Harrison. Autographs: William Henry 
 Harrison; John Tyler [Vice-President]; Daniel Web- 
 ster [State] ; Thomas Ewing [Treasury] ; John Bell 
 [War] ; George E. Badger [Navy] ; Francis Granger 
 [Postmaster General]; John J. Crittenden [Attorney 
 General]. 
 
 Tyler's Administration. 1841-45. [On Re- 
 verse.] 
 
 Portrait: Tyler. Autographs: John Tyler; Daniel 
 Webster [State]; Abel P. Upshur [State; Navy]; John 
 C. Calhoun [State]; Walter Forward [Treasury]; John 
 C. Spencer [Treasury; War]; George M. Bibb [Treas- 
 
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ury] ; James M. Porter [War] ; William Wilkins [War] ; 
 David Henshaw [Navy]; Thomas W. Gilmer [Navy]; 
 John Y. Mason [Navy] ; Charles A. Wickliffe [Post- 
 master General] ; Hugh S. Legare [Attorney General] ; 
 John Nelson [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET XLIX. 
 
 Polk's Administration. 1845-49. [On Ob- 
 verse.] 
 
 Portrait: Polk. Autographs: James K. Polk; George 
 M. Dallas [Vice-President]; James Buchanan [State]; 
 Robert J. Walker [Treasury] ; William L. Marcy [War] ; 
 George Bancroft [Navy]; John Y. Mason [Attorney 
 General; Navy]; Cave Johnson [Postmaster General]; 
 Nathan Clifford [Attorney General] ; Isaac Toucey [At- 
 torney General]. 
 
 Taylor's Administration. 1849-50. [On 
 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Taylor. Autographs: Zachary Taylor; Mil- 
 lard Fillmore [Vice-President]; John M. Clayton 
 [State]; William M. Meredith [Treasury]; Thomas 
 Corwin [Treasury]; George W. Crawford [War]; 
 Thomas Ewing [Interior]; William B. Preston [Navy] ; 
 Jacob Collamer [Postmaster General]; Reverdy John- 
 son [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET L. 
 
 Fillmore's Administration. 1850-53. [On 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Fillmore. Autographs: Millard Fillmore; 
 Daniel Webster [State]; Edward Everett [State]; 
 Thomas Corwin [Treasury] ; Charles M. Conrad [War] ; 
 William A. Graham [Navy] ; Thomas M. T. McKennan 
 [appointed, Interior, declined to accept] ; Alexander H. 
 H. Stuart [Interior]; John P. Kennedy [Navy]; Na- 
 than K. Hall [Postmaster General] ; S. D. Hubbard 
 [Postmaster General]; John J. Crittenden [Attorney 
 General]. 
 
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Pierce's Administration. 1853-57. [On Re- 
 verse.] 
 
 Portrait: Pierce. Autographs: Franklin Pierce; Wil- 
 liam R. King [Vice-President] ; William L. Marcy 
 [State]; James Guthrie [Treasury]; Jefferson Davis 
 [War] ; James C. Dobbin [Navy] ; James Campbell 
 [Postmaster General] ; Robert McClelland [Interior] ; 
 Caleb Gushing [Attorney General]. 
 
 TABLET LI. 
 
 Buchanan's Administration. 1857-61. [On 
 
 Obverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Buchanan. Autographs: James Buchanan; 
 John C. Breckenridge [Vice-President] ; Lewis Cass 
 [State] ; Howell Cobb [Treasury] ; Philip F. Thomas 
 [Treasury]; John A. Dix [Treasury]; John B. Floyd 
 [War]; Isaac Toucey [Navy]; Jacob Thompson [Inte- 
 rior]; Aaron V. Brown [Postmaster General]; Horatio 
 King [Postmaster General] ; Jeremiah S. Black [Attor- 
 ney General]; Edwin M. Stanton [Attorney General]. 
 
 Lincoln's Administration. 1861-65. [On 
 
 Reverse.] 
 
 Portrait: Lincoln. Autographs: Abraham Lincoln 
 Autograph also of Mary Lincoln]; Hannibal Hamlin 
 Vice-President] ; William H. Seward [State] ; Salmon 
 :?. Chase [Treasury]; William Pitt Fessenden [Treas- 
 ury]; Hugh McCulloch [Treasury]; Simon Cameron 
 [War] ; Edwin M. Stanton [War] ; Gideon Welles 
 [Navy]; Caleb B. Smith [Interior] ; John P. Usher [In- 
 terior] ; James Harlan [Interior] ; Edward Bates [At- 
 torney General]; James Speed [Attorney General]; 
 Montgomery Blair [Postmaster General] ; William Den- 
 nison [Postmaster General]. 
 
 TABLET LII. 
 Judges of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: John Jay; Oliver Ellsworth. 
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Autographs: John Jay [Chief Justice 1789-95]; John 
 Rutledge [1789-91; Chief Justice 1795]; William Cush- 
 ing [1789-1810]; Robert H. Harrison [1789]; James 
 Wilson [1789-98]; John Blair [1789-96]; James Iredell 
 [1790-99] ; Thomas Johnson [1790-93] ; William Pater- 
 son [1793-1806]; Samuel Chase [1796-1811]; Oliver 
 Ellsworth [Chief Justice 1796-1801]; Bushrod Washing- 
 ton [1798-1821]; Alfred Moore [1799-1804]; John Mar- 
 shall [1801-30]; William Johnson [1804-34]; Thomas 
 Todd [1807-26]; B: Livingston [1807-23]; Gabriel 
 Duval [181 1-34]; Joseph Story [181 1-45]; Smith 
 Thompson [1823-45]. 
 
 REVERSE. Portraits: John Marshall; Roger B. 
 Taney. Autographs: Robert Trimble [1826-29]; John 
 McLean [1829-61]; Henry Baldwin [1830-46]; John 
 M. Wayne [1835-67]; Roger B. Taney [Chief Justice 
 1836-64]; Philip P. Barbour [1836-41]; John Catron 
 [1837-65] ; John McKinley [1837-52] ; Peter V. Daniel 
 [1841-60]; Samuel Nelson [1845-1872]; Levi Woodbury 
 [1845-51]; Salmon P. Chase [Chief Justice, 1864-1870]; 
 Robert C. Grier [1846-70]; Benjamin R. Curtis [1851- 
 57]; James A. Campbell [1853-56]; Nathan Clifford 
 [185&-1881]; Noah H. Swayne [1862-1881]; Samuel F. 
 Miller [1862-1890]; David Davis [1862-1877]; Stephen 
 J. Field [1863- ]; William Strong [1870-1880]; Joseph 
 P. Bradley [1870-1892]. 
 
 TABLET LIII. 
 
 Speakers of the House of Representatives of 
 the United States. 
 
 OBVERSE. Autographs: William Augustus Muhl- 
 enberg; Jonathan Trumbull; Jonathan Dayton; Theo- 
 dore Sedgwick; Nathaniel Mason; J. B.Varnum; Henry 
 Clay; Langdon Cheves; John W. Taylor; Philip P. Bar- 
 bour; A. Stephenson; John Bell; James K. Polk; R. M. 
 T. Hunter; John White; J. W. Jones; John W. Davis; 
 Robert C. Winthrop; Howell Cobb; Linn Boyd; Na- 
 thaniel P. Banks; James L. Orr; William Pennington; 
 Galusha A. Grow; Schuyler Colfax. 
 
 REVERSE. Portrait: Henry Clay. 
 
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TABLET LIV. 
 
 Revolutionary Officers. 1 775-1 783. 
 
 Note. The names below are only those of a few 
 of equally meritorious officers who would have been 
 added had their signatures been in the collection un- 
 attached to valuable papers. 
 
 OBVERSE. Portraits: General Muhlenberg; Colo- 
 nel Smith; Colonel Barton; General C. C. Pinckney; 
 General Gansevoort. Autographs: Peter Muhlenberg; 
 Rufus Putnam; William Maxwell; Elias Dayton; James 
 Thacher; William Barton; Abraham Ten Broeck; John 
 Greaton; Charles Scott; Morgan Lewis; Joseph Frye; 
 William Grayson; Alexander McDougall; John Whet- 
 comb. 
 
 REVERSE. Print: Seal of the Board of War. 
 Letter press: Organization of the Board of War and its 
 successor, the Secretary of War; Biographical notes. 
 
 TABLET LV. 
 Statesmen. [On Obverse.] 
 
 Note. The classification of the group below, and 
 of several that follow, has no significance. The names 
 are here simply because they were found in the collec- 
 tion as mere parts or fragments, or attached to worth- 
 less papers. 
 
 Autographs: Lord Erskine, George Canning, with 
 portraits; Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, with por- 
 traits; Earl Grey, Duke of Wellington, with portraits; 
 Lord Brougham, Daniel O'Connell, with portraits; 
 Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, with portraits; John C. 
 Calhoun, Lewis Cass, with portraits; Silas Wright, Jr., 
 Thomas H. Benton, with portraits; Edward Everett, 
 William H. Seward, with portraits. 
 
 Statesmen and Others. [On Reverse.] 
 
 Autographs: Samuel Pepys; Earl Danby; Earl Go- 
 dolphin; Stephen Fox; Charles Montague; Sir Robert 
 Walpole; Middlesex; Henry Fox; Dunk Halifax; Wil- 
 liam Wyndham; Lord George Bridges Rodney; Lord 
 
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Edward Pellew; Fisher Ames; DeWitt Clinton; Wil- 
 liam Wirt; Jeremiah Mason; Albert Gallatin; William 
 H. Crawford; John McLean; Nicholas Biddle; Levi 
 Woodbury; John Forsyth; John Bell; James Buchanan; 
 James Shields. 
 
 TABLET LVI. 
 Thomas Gray, of the Elegy. 
 
 OBVERSE. Autograph and Portrait (with piece of 
 Gray's writing) on title page of the Bibliotheque His- 
 torique de la France. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Biographical sketch. 
 
 TABLET LVIL 
 Some of the Continental Congress. 1774- 
 
 1789. 
 
 Note. See note to Tablet LV. 
 
 OBVERSE. Old print of the Congress. Autographs: 
 John Sullivan; Nathaniel Folsom; Thomas Gushing; 
 Robert Treat Paine; Stephen Hopkins; Samuel Ward; 
 Roger Sherman; John Jay; Philip Livingston; John 
 Alsop; William Floyd; Henry Wisner; Francis Lewis; 
 David Ramsay; Ralph Izard; John Lewis Gervais; 
 James Kinsey; William Livingston; Stephen Crane; 
 Thomas Mifflin; Joseph Galloway; John Morton; 
 Thomas McKean; Samuel Chase; Caesar Rodney; 
 Richard Smith; Isaac Low; Benjamin Harrison; Na- 
 than Dane; Samuel A. Otis; Nathaniel Peabody. 
 
 REVERSE. Letter press: Articles of Association, 
 etc., adopted in Congress, October 20, 1774, with sig- 
 natures. 
 
 TABLET LVIII. 
 
 Seals of Eminent Persons. 
 
 Note. The seals on this and the followmg Tablets 
 are arranged without classification, excepting by size 
 and color. 
 
 OBVERSE. Rev. William Bell, prebendary of West- 
 minister; Dr. Thomas Raffles, of Liverpool; Edward 
 
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Livingston, Secretary of State, President Jackson's ad- 
 ministration; Jacob Bryant, author of "Ancient My- 
 thology;" Dr. Benjamin Heath, Fellow of Eton College; 
 Rev. Michael Tyson,^ "Ode to Peace;" Rev. William 
 Gilpin, "Essay on Prints;" James Buchanan, President 
 of the United States; Rev. Thomas Kerrich, University 
 of Cambridge; Rev. Thomas Percy, D.D., "Percy's 
 ReHques;" John Singleton Copley, painter; James 
 Montgomery, poet; John Marshall, Chief Justice of the 
 United States, 1801-36; William H. Seward, Secretary 
 of State, Lincoln's and Johnson's administrations; Dr. 
 John Griscom, Professor of Rutgers Medical College; 
 Rev. Horace Holley, D.D., President of Transylvania 
 University, Ky. ; Anna Letitia Barbauld, author; Rev. 
 Michael Tyson ;^ George Prettyman, D.D., Bishop of 
 Winchester; Cyril Jackson, D.D., Dean of Oxford; 
 Andrew Stevenson, minister to England, 1836-41; 
 Thomas Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church; Rev. Thomas 
 Drake, F. S. A.; C. M. Sutton, D.D., Archbishop of 
 Canterbury; L. Bagot, D.D., Bishop of Norwich; John 
 Saffin, Massachusetts Judge, 1700; General James War- 
 ren, of Plymouth, Revolutionary Patriot; Rev. Thomas 
 Drake,' F. S. A.; Rev. William Howley, D.D., Bishop 
 of London; Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War, 1794, 
 Washington's administration, afterward Secretary of 
 State; George I., of England; Sir William Johnson, 
 New York; Seal of Albany, 1752; Richard Rush, 
 Minister to England, 1817-25; Samuel Dexter, Secre- 
 tary of War, 1800, Adams's administration. 
 
 REVERSE. C. J. Loudon, botanist; James Sher- 
 lock, Sheriff in 1687; John Randolph, father of John of 
 Roanoke; Henry Nelson Coleridge, author; Capell 
 LofTt,^ lawyer, editor, author of "Anthology of Son- 
 nets;" Rev. John Mitford, editor and poet; Dr. John 
 Torrey, botanist and chemist; Robert Treat Paine, 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence; Duke of 
 Wellington, as Prime Minister; John Gushing, Judge, 
 1747-1771; Major John Cartwright, political reformer; 
 James Northcote, sculptor; R. R. Gurley, philanthro- 
 pist; Peter Oliver, Chief Justice, Massachusetts, 1772- 
 75; Martin Madan, D.D., "Letter to Dr. Priestley;" 
 Hon. Daines Barrington, statesman and naturalist; Dr. 
 
 1 Two seals, of different patterns. 
 
 2 Duplicate. 
 
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Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College; Thomas Percy, 
 D.D., "Percy's Reliques;" Bishop James Madison, of 
 
 William and Mary College; Anderson; Rev. 
 
 Dr. Charles Lowell, of Boston, West Church; Rev. 
 George Costard, "History of Armstrong;" Dr. Thomas 
 Percy, D.D.;"* James D. Dunham, "Christianity the 
 Friend of Man;" Capell Loflft,^ lawyer and editor; 
 Rev. Michael Tyson ;^ Thomas Moore, poet; Michael 
 Lort, D.D.,^ Greek professor, Cambridge; St. George 
 Tucker, "Life of Jefferson;" Michael Lort, D.D.;^ 
 Thomas Percy, D.D.;' William Wirt, Attorney Gen- 
 eral, Monroe's administration; Thomas Pownall, Gov- 
 ernor, Massachusetts, 1757-60; Professor Samuel F. B. 
 Morse, founder of the American system of electro- 
 magnetic telegraph; George Stevens, Shakespearian 
 scholar. 
 
 TABLET LIX. 
 Seals of Eminent Persons. 
 
 OBVERSE. John Gibson; David M. Moir; Bishop 
 Heber; Dr. Charles Beck; Douglas Jerrold; Major 
 Agnew; David Maclise; Dr. Charles Beck; Lord 
 Brougham; Lord Schuckbright;^ Westmacott, artist; 
 Earl Haddington; Sir George Gray; Sir Robert Peel; 
 Dr. McCrie; Sir John Sinclair; Sir Francis Head; 
 
 Schmidt; Rev. Edward Nares; Rev. Rowland 
 
 Hill; Richard Peters; Mr. Justice Willes; William 
 Pickering, publisher; Earl Dalhousie; Robert C. Win- 
 throp; Joseph Cottle; Lord Schuckbright;^ Leverett 
 Saltonstall; Mr. Justice Vaughan; Dr. Aaron Bancroft; 
 George II.; John Cotton Smith. 
 
 REVERSE. Victoria; Alaric A. Watts; Daniel 
 Webster; Alexander H. Everett; Gneismann; Sir Henry 
 Torrens; Henry Clay; Lord Collingwood; Governor 
 George Coleston; Allenstein; Edward Livingston; Jo- 
 siah Quincy, 3d; Count Bruhl; John Flaxman; Lord 
 Nelson; Marshal Victor; Xavier; Sir John Graham; 
 Schuyler Colfax; Lord Donerail; Von Hardenberg; 
 
 1 Two seals, of different patterns, 
 
 2 Three seals (one on the obverse), of different patterns. 
 
 ' Duplicate of second seal of Tyson, on Tablet LVIII, ob- 
 verse. 
 
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Marshal Oudinot; Louis XVIII.; Johane; Hannah 
 More; Prince August; Lord Canning; George I.; Com- 
 modore John Rogers; Marshal Jourdan. 
 
 TABLET LX. 
 Seals of Eminent Persons. 
 
 OBVERSE. Lord Melbourne; Savigny; Mr. Justice 
 John B. Byles; Frederick WilHam, of Prussia; Lord 
 Macaulay; James Steel; Sir William Grant; George 
 Bancroft; Governor Edward Winslow; Earl Hadding- 
 ton; Bishop Wainwright; Canova, sculptor; Mr. Justice 
 Wines, 1840; Benjamin Franklin; Fiirth; William Play- 
 fair; Alexander v. Humboldt; Dr. N. W. Appleton; Sir 
 William Drummond; Lord Bolingbroke, 1715; Moltke, 
 civilian; Sir Edmund Head; Abbe Barthelemy; Rev. T. 
 R. Malthus; Sir Walter Scott; John Joseph, Saxony; 
 Lord Maberley; Lord Macaulay; Sir John Sinclair; 
 Lord John Russell. 
 
 REVERSE. Wellington; Sir Edward Coke; Con- 
 yers Middleton; Robert Mason, New Hampshire, 1680; 
 Diderot; William E. Burton; Fenelon; Henry Howard, 
 artist; George Rose; W. H. Ainsworth; Leonard 
 Woods, Jr.; Wellington;^ Turner, painter; Henry Kirk 
 White; Schleirmacher; Lord Gambler; Reichenbach; 
 Richard Varick; Paul Barras; Byfalk; Zollius; Alex- 
 ander Chalmers; Lady Charlotte Bury; Professor God- 
 dard. Brown University; Von Nagler; Sir W. Hamil- 
 ton; Jonathan Williams, Jr.; Francis Dana, Jr.; John 
 Pierpont; Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester; Liv- 
 ingston; Colonel John Laurens; Earl Charlemont; Jo- 
 seph T. Buckingham; John Wilmont. 
 
 TABLET LXL 
 Seals of Eminent Persons. 
 
 OBVERSE. Edward Everett;' Sir John Ross; Dor- 
 othy L. Dix; Dr. John Anderson; Sir Harry Nicholas; 
 Earl Rochester; Alexander J. Downing; Serjeant Chan- 
 nell; Edward Everett;' Rev. Henry Melville; Bariy 
 Cornwall; Amelia Opie; Mr. Justice Brownell; Welcher; 
 
 1 Duplicate. 
 
 2 Two seals, different patterns. 
 
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J. H. Allen; Jared Sparks; J. B. Lane; W. Eden, Lord 
 Auckland; Charles Finch; Justice J. B. Byles;^ Mary- 
 Shelley; Lord Plunkett; Charles Grant; Prince Hoare. 
 REVERSE. Blank. 
 
 TABLET LXII. 
 
 Seals of the Signers [of the Declarcttion of 
 Independence] and Others. 
 
 OBVERSE. Rufus King, 1787; Richard Henry Lee, 
 1776; Nicholas Oilman, 1787; John Hancock, 1776; 
 John Adams, 1776; Benjamin Franklin, 1776; Roger 
 Sherman, 1776; General Burgoyne, 1777; William Wil- 
 liams, 1776; Elias Boudinot, 1783; Richard Mont- 
 gomery, 177s; Oliver Wolcott, 1776; Ralph Izard, 1779; 
 George Ross, 1776; Henry Laurens, 1779; Baron Vi- 
 omenil, 1781; Sir Adam Ferguson; Lord Shelburne, 
 1783; C. C. Pinckney; General Lafayette; Charles 
 Pinckney. 
 
 REVERSE. Fac-simile of the signatures to the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 TABLET LXIIL 
 
 [Other] Original Seals. 
 
 OBVERSE. Martin F. Tupper; Samuel J. Arnold; 
 Earl of Egremont; Governor Belcher, 1730; Lord Aber- 
 deen; Lord Palmerston; Sir James Mackintosh; W. H. 
 Ainsworth; Governor Stoughton, 1694; Lady Hester 
 Stanhope; Governor Joseph Dudley, 1702; R. Plummer 
 Ward; Lady Wellesley; Lord Brougham; Dr. Bowring, 
 poet. 
 
 REVERSE. Marshal Massena; Chev. Hulsemann; 
 Earl Grey, 1830; Lord Whitworth, 1802; Earl Shaftes- 
 bury, 1834; Prince of Canino; Francis Lieber;' Governor 
 Paris, of Maine; Francis Lieber;^ Lord Berwick, 1823; 
 Sir Alexander McKenzie; Earl Bridgewater; Sir Fran- 
 cis Freeling; Paul Hamilton, South Carolina; Lord 
 Yarboro. 
 
 iTwo seals, one on Tablet LX. 
 2 Two seals, different patterns. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 The correspondence between Judge Cham- 
 berlain and the Board of Trustees, accom- 
 panying the transfer, was as follows: 
 
 Chelsea, February 14, 1893. 
 To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library: 
 
 Gentlemen: I propose to leave to the Boston Public 
 Library, by testamentary bequest, my collection of his- 
 torical documents, manuscripts, autographs, portraits, 
 and engravings connected therewith, together with a 
 few printed volumes, and some matters of personal in- 
 terest to me, provided the Trustees, after a more mature 
 consideration of the subject, are still willing to accept 
 the same agreeably to an informal understanding ex- 
 pressed at their meeting, January 17, 1893. That is to 
 say, that the Trustees will furnish the room in the new 
 building, connected with the librarian's room, substan- 
 tially in accord with the plan prepared by Alex. S. 
 Jenney, and set said room apart as the permanent home 
 of said collection, to be and forever remain in the sole 
 custody of the librarian, under the Trustees. 
 
 From the above conditions are to be excepted the 
 framed Address to the King, the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Con- 
 stitution of the United States, which would be properly 
 exhibited on the walls of some more public room.^ 
 
 While I desire to retain the property of the collection 
 during my life, it is my wish, nevertheless, to transfer 
 to the Library at once such portions of it as are in com- 
 
 iWith Judge Chamberlain's consent the Tablets described 
 above have been removed to the room for Younger Readers, 
 and are displayed below the four great Documents on the south 
 wall. 
 
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pleted form, and the remainder as soon as it can be 
 completed. 
 
 The collection will need an index and binding; and 
 as I am familiar with the requirements, I think it would 
 be well to have one or more volumes of each division 
 bound as soon as may be, to serve as examples for the 
 remaining volumes. 
 
 It is my purpose to make the collection as complete 
 as I may; and to that end, after any portion of it is 
 transferred to the Library, I shall desire free access to 
 it at suitable times. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 (Signed) Mellen Chamberlain. 
 
 Public Library of the City of Boston. 
 To the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain: 
 
 Dear Sir: It is my pleasant duty to inform you that 
 I am instructed by the Trustees of the Public Library 
 of the City of Boston, that they accept with great grat- 
 itude your proposed testamentary gift of your unique 
 and valuable "collection of historical documents, auto- 
 graphs, portraits, and engravings connected therewith, 
 together with certain printed volumes," and that they 
 agree to perform all the conditions set forth in your 
 letter of February 14, 1893, to which the gift is made 
 subject. 
 
 Permit me to improve the opportunity to express 
 my own appreciation of the great value of your pro- 
 posed donation, and assure you that all the conditions 
 referred to will be faithfully performed. The Trustees 
 have already commenced the work of preparing a suit- 
 able room in the new Library building for the accom- 
 modation of the collection as you are pleased to allow 
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