Excerpt from The History of the Boston Athen???um: With Biographical Notices of Its Deceased Founders With William Smith Shaw, who is better entitled than any other individual to the name of Founder of the Athenaeum, my intimacy, through his whole life, was strict and confidential. I was a constant wit ness of the energy, zeal, and devotedness with which he watched over it in its embryo state, and knew his fond anticipations concerning its future greatness and usefulness. My own early interest in the design, which thus ...
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Excerpt from The History of the Boston Athen???um: With Biographical Notices of Its Deceased Founders With William Smith Shaw, who is better entitled than any other individual to the name of Founder of the Athenaeum, my intimacy, through his whole life, was strict and confidential. I was a constant wit ness of the energy, zeal, and devotedness with which he watched over it in its embryo state, and knew his fond anticipations concerning its future greatness and usefulness. My own early interest in the design, which thus occupied Mr. Shaw's thoughts and affections, is indicated by the records of the institution, which show, that my name was the fourth on the list of the first subscribers, and that my subscription was the largest that the terms of the first subscription allowed. My duties at that period, as a member of the Con gress of the United States from Boston, prevented my being a member of the Anthology Club, or hold ing any official connection with the Athenmum until my resignation of my station at Washington in 1813. During the fifteen succeeding years, I was elected without intermission into the board of Trustees; and during the last nine of those years, and until my removal to Harvard University, in 1829, I was Pres ident of the Athenwum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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