Boston Boston Athenaeum The Athenaeum Centerary The Softener ad History of the Boston athenaeum Boston B.A., 1907. PROPRIETORS 135 John Torrey Morse, Jr., and Elizabeth Loring Tappan and Eben Rollins Morse, Ex- Mary Swift Tappan 1901 ecutors 1894 174 DAVID WELD CHILD 1822 Elihu Goodman Loomis 1894 Artemas Ward 1835 167 ABBOTT LAWRENCE 1822 Henry Artemas Ward 1848 William Nye Davis 1857 Edward Alexander Strong 1866 Annah Delano 1863 175 ROBERT GOULD SHAW 1822 James D. Thomson 1866 John Haven Cheever 1855 Robert Hooper, Jr. 1866 David Williams Cheever 1869 Joseph Hurd 1867 176 THOMAS CORDIS 1822 168 MARSHALL BINNEY SPRING 1822 Thomas Aspinwall 1856 169 Avos LAWRENCE 1822 Francis Henshaw and Com- William Richards Lawrence 1836 pany 1880 Susan Coombs Lawrence 1885 Charles Smith Bradley 1880 George Brune Shattuck 1886 Fanny L. Francis 1889 170 IBRAEL THORNDIKI, Jr. 1822 Nelson Slater Bartlett 1891 Edward Greely Loring 1844 177 JOHN BELLOWS 1822 George Washington Warren 1844 George Alexander Otis 1826 Helen Talcott Jones 1884 John Brazer Davis 1827 George Pemberton Bangs 1884 James Murray Robbins 1835 Robert Hallowell Gardiner, Archibald Murray Howe 1887 Trustee 1893 178 ABIJAH FISK 1822 William Lowell Putnam 1898 Hercules M. Hayes 1824 Robert Hallowell Gardiner, John Williams 1829 Trustee 1898 Hercules M. Hayes 1830 Albert Thorndike 1903 Simon Eliot Greene 1830 Robert Hallowell Gardiner, Samuel Griswold Goodrich 1831 Trustee 1903 John Henry Jenks 1832 171 WILLIAM PRATT 1822 Samuel Griswold Goodrich 1833 William Parsons Winchester 1845 John Mackay 1840 Eliza Gill Winchester, William William Davies Sohier 1845 Sohier, and Charles Berkley William Sohier 1872 Johnson, Trustees 1851 William Davies Sohier 1893 William Minot, Jr., Trustee 1891 179 SAMUEL DORR 1822 Laurence Minot and Joseph Charles Hazen Dorr 1845 Henry Russell, Trustees 1901 George Bucknam Dorr 1894 Simmons Female College 1903 180 SAMUEL WHITWELL, JR. 1822 172 JAMES HALL 1822 Benjamin Franklin White 1837 James Trecothick Austin 1841 Charles Royal Bond 1839 Susanna Williams 1847 Thomas William Parsons, Jr. 1840 Edward Alexander Williams 1860 Horace Wayland Wadleigh 1897 Sarah Ann Elizabeth Wil- Mary Evert Goodwin 1897 liams 1872 Mary Evert Nazro 1902 Thomas Williams Williams 1875 Henry Hornblower 1902 Charles Merrick Gay 1879 181 FRIDERIC WILLIAM PAINE 1822 Georgie McClure 1894 Gardiner Leonard Chandler, Georgie Lee 1897 Jr. 1835 173 JOHN TAPPAN 1822 David B. Tower 1837 John Gallison Tappan 1872 Rufus Choate 1839 Frederick Herbert Tappan and Mary Ann Palfrey Russell 1865 Mary Swift Tappan 1888 182 FRANCIS STANTON 1822 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN The Athenaum Centenary The Influence and History OF THE BOSTON ATHENAUM = FROM 1807 TO 1907 WITH A RECORD OF ITS OFFICERS AND BENEFACTORS AND A COMPLETE LIST OF PROPRIETORS PRINTED FROM THE INCOME OF THE ROBERT CHARLES BILLINGS FUND THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM 1907 V. FC Contents PAGE I. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ATHENAUM ON LITER- ATURE IN AMERICA I By BARRETT WENDELL II. THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ATHE- NAUM HISTORY. A CHRONOLOGICAL SKETCH 13 By THE LIBRARIAN III. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN THE ATHENAEUM 57 IV. PERMANENT FUNDS OF THE ATHENAEM 67 V. CHIEF GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO THE ATHE- NAEUM 73 VI. PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE ATHENAUM 89 VII. FOUNDERS OF THE ATHENAUM 107 VIII. OFFICERS 113 IX. PROPRIETORS 123 X. MEMBERS OF THE STAFF 215 INDEX 225 I THE INFLUENCE OF THE ATHEN/EUM ON LITERATURE IN AMERICA BY BARRETT WENDELL THE influence of the Boston Athenxum is a fact not so much in history as in the memories, and in the lives of those who have had the happy fortune to know and to feel it. At least hereabouts- - and they still pleas- antly pretend that true Bostonians regard the universe as radiating from the newly gilded dome of the State House - there has never been anything else quite like this truly social library, now grown to its hun- dredth year. It is in no sense a private place, yet it has qualities of privacy as fine as those of houses where the very fact of your reception is in itself a subtle pleasure. It is not a public place, where the whole world may jostle you until you wonder whether in some better world than this you may find yourself, if you are good here, among angels without elbows; yet it has the impersonal generosity of such publicity as makes your presence in its halls and alcoves a cordial matter of course. It is not a haunt of solemn scholarship, dedi- cated to the almost religious pursuit of learning, as if 1912 J.C Gry 116 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM John Richards 1821-1822 Peter Oxenbridge Thacher 1823-1825 Francis Calley Gray 1826-1832 George Ticknor 1833 George Hayward 1834-1836 Thomas Greaves Cary 1837-1845 John Amory Lowell 1846-1859 George Livermore 1860-1865 Andrew Townshend Hall 1866-1875 Charles Francis Adams 1876 Charles Deane 1877-1884 Robert William Hooper 1885 James Elliot Cabot 1886-1898 John Chipman Gray 1899-1904 Howard Stockton 1905- TREASURERS John Lowell 1807-1810 Joseph Tilden 1811-1815 Nathan Appleton 1816-1827 Thomas Wren Ward 1828-1836 Josiah Quincy, Jr. 1837-1851 Samuel Hooper 1852-1853 Henry Bromfield Rogers 1854-1867 Arthur Theodore Lyman 1868 Henry Bromfield Rogers 1869-1876 Charles Pickering Bowditch 1877-1898 Alfred Bowditch 1899- SECRETARIES William Smith Shaw 1807-18231 Henry Codman 1824-1827 1 Under the By-Laws of 1822 the Secretary ceased to be a Trustee ex officio. 120 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM Thumma Erastus Brigham Bigelow 1852-1857 Charles Eliot Norton 1852-1864 James Brown 1853-1855 Samuel Gray Ward 1853-1855 Martin Brimmer 1854-1861 Henry Tuke Parker 1854 Charles Eliot Ware 1855-1879 Robert William Hooper 1855-1884 Uriah Atherton Boyden 1855-1856 Edward Newton Perkins 1856-1898 Francis Edward Parker 1856-1876 William Appleton, Jr. 1856 Edward Clarke Cabot 1857-1875 James Elliot Cabot 1857-1885 Francis Parkman 1858-1893 Charles Russell Codman 1858-1863 Gardiner Howland Shaw 1860-1867 Francis Boardman Crowninshield 1860-1875 George Washington Wales 1860-1896 Lemuel Shaw 1862-1884 Alexander Hamilton Rice 1864-1881 Charles Storer Storrow 1864-1878 Christopher Toppan Thayer 1865-1880 Charles Deane 1866-1876 Samuel Eliot 1866-1879 Benjamin Smith Rotch 1868-1882 Arthur Theodore Lyman 1876-1898 Ephraim Whitman Gurney 1877-1886 John Chipman Gray 1877-1898 Henry Cabot Lodge 1879-1898 Howard Stockton 1880-1904 Thomas Buckminster Curtis 1880-1881 Clement Hugh Hill 1881-1889 118 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM James Perkins 1807-1819 Fridays Samuel Eliot 1807-1810 Samuel Dexter 1811-1815 Richard Sullivan 1811-1821 John Lowell 1811-1813 Josiah Quincy 1813-1815 John Richards 1814-1820 John Davis 1816-1821 Joseph Tilden 1816-1822 David Sears 1819-1822 John Lowell 1820-1821 Theodore Lyman, Jr. 1821-1826 Edward Everett 1822-1823 Francis Calley Gray 1822-1825 Amos Lawrence 1822-1825 Charles Jackson 1822 Henry Codman 1823-1827 Samuel Swett 1823-1827 William Sturgis 1823-1825 Thomas Wigglesworth 1823-1828 George Ticknor 1823-1832 Nathaniel Bowditch 1826-1833 Samuel Dorr 1826-1827 Edward Brooks 1826-1829 George Hayward 1827-1833 Israel Thorndike 1828 Henderson Inches 1828-1831 Joseph Coolidge, Jr. 1828-1829 Franklin Dexter 1828-1835 Charles Pelham Curtis 1829-1834 John Lowell, Jr. 1829 Isaac P Davis 1830-1844 Edward Wigglesworth 1830-1850 134 THE BOSTON ATHEN/EUM Lemuel Shattuck 1845 155 WILLIAM STURGIA 1822 Clarissa Baxter Shattuck 1860 William Hurd 1866 Miriam Stedman Shattuck 1883 Alexander Strong Wheeler 1866 145 JONATHAN AMORY 1822 156 JOHN BRYANT 1822 Jonathan Amory 1830 Waldo Higginson 1868 Henry Grew 1831 Henry Munson Spelman and Zelotes Hosmer 1836 Francis Clarke Welch, Henry Roby 1837 Trustees 1895 James Frothingham Hunne- 157 HENDERSON INCHES 1822 well 1851 Henderson Inches 1858 146 JESSE PUTNAM 1822 Martin Brimmer Inches 1885 Benjamin W. Putnam 1862 John Chester Inches 1885 Dupee, Beck and Sayles 1869 Francis Clarke Welch, George Elbridge Gerry Cutler 1870 Brimmer Inches, and Ber- 147 CHARLES JACKSON 1822 nard Stearns Clark, Trus- Samuel George Snelling 1864 tees 1902 William Fletcher Weld 1886 158 ISAAC WINSLOW 1822 Ellen Homer Weld 1893 Benjamin Pollard Winslow 1862 148 SAMUEL PICKERING GARDNER 1822 Edward Reed 1882 Peter Thacher Homer 1844 John Orne Green 1885 Margaret Homer 1887 159 GORHAM BROOKS 1822 Margaret Homer Davis 1892 Peter Chardon Brooks, Jr. 1858 149 PATRICK TRACY JACKSON 1822 Ellen Brooks 1865 Lydia Jackson, Trustee 1860 Edward Dearborn Maynard 1884 Elizabeth H. Webster 1865 Harriet Elizabeth Ely 1888 Arthur Reed 1876 Elizabeth Brewster Ely 1891 150 CHARLES BRADBURY 1822 160 GEORGE HALLET 1822 Charles Browne 1855 Caleb Cushing 1828 Edward Ingersoll Browne 1879 161 CHARLES THORNDIKE 1822 Francis Clarke Welch and Charles Greely Loring, Ad- Charles Thorndike, Trus- ministrator 1846 tees 1903 Ezra A. Bourne, Trustee and Robert Breck Williams 1904 Guardian 1851 151 HORACE GRAY 1822 Charles Edward Cotting 1883 William Story Bullard 1849 Julius Auboineau Palmer 1883 William Norton Bullard and Oliver Willard Mink 1901 Stephen Bullard, Trustees 1897 162 AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE 1822 152 FRANCIS CALLEY GRAY 1822 William Cranch Bond Fifield 1860 William Gray 1858 Lorin Fuller Deland 1889 William Gray, Jr. 1858 163 BENJAMIN GUILD 1822 Chester Guild, Jr. 1860 Eliza Guild 1861 Francis Batcheller 1877 Edward Chipman Guild 1861 Susan Burley Cabot 1889 Katharine Rand Mead 1892 153 JOHN CHIPMAN GRAV 1822 164 EDWARD BROOKS 1822 James Beck 1864 Francis Brooks 1878 Edith Doane Beck 1875 Edmund March Wheelwright 1887 Charles Edward Wilson 1876 165 EBENEZER APPLETON 1822 154 THOMAS WREN WARD 1822 Alden Bradford Weston 1832 Charles L. Field 1858 Peters and Parkinson 1878 John Sidney Davenport 1867 Francis Manning Stanwood 1879 Augusta Kimball Horton 1876 166 EBENEZER ROLLINS 1822 BOSTON DIRECTORY. 87 Dodge Nathaniel, mason, Market place Doggett Elizabeth, widow, rear 28 Back Doggett John & Co. (Samuel S. Williams and Samuel Doggett, jr.) looking-glass warehouse, 12, 14 and 16 Market street Doggett Mercy, nurse, 17 North Doggett Noah, surveyor of lumber, Sea Doggett Samuel, jr. see John Doggett & Co. Dogherty Hervey, labourer, Cookson place Dogherty Mark, labourer, Cookson place Dolbear Betsey, widow, Distill-house square Dolbear Ebenezer P. caulker, Gibbs lane Dolbear Edmund P. see Hayden & D. Dolbear Nancy, mantuamaker, 31 Middle Dole Joseph, cooper, Chambers Dollanty Robert, blacksmith, Ship Dolliver Thomas, sail maker, Hancock's wharf, house 8 Ship Dominick Joseph, hackman, Federal Dommett Charles M. saddler, Marlboro' Dommett George, manufacturer of whale bone whips and trunks, 6 Dock square, house Hawkins Dommett Nancy, boarding house, 3 Suffolk Donnaling William, goldsmith, Cambridge Donnison James, cordwainer, Elliot Donnison William, blacksmith, back 37 Pleasant Donnison William, South Bennet Doolon Andrew, labourer, 2 Wharf Dorety James, hair dresser, 10 Old State House, house South Russell Dorion John, confectioner, Butolph Dorman James, labourer, Ship Dorr Andrew C. merchant, house Elliot Dorr E. Ritchie, attorney, 90 Court Dorr Henry, merchant, houre 35 Newbury Dorr John, merchant, 41 Central wharf, house Milk Dorr John, jr. see Brewer, Barrett & D. Dorr Joseph H. merchant, Central wharf, house Grid- ley lane Dorr Joseph, rope maker, back 26 Pleasant Dorr Samuel, merchant, house 28 Atkinson Doubt Catharine and Mary, 43 North Douglass Elijah, Purchase Dow Ann, widow, Purchase 7/3/2017 No. 035: November, 1945 :: Athenaeum Items, A Library Letter From the Boston Athenaeum (Newsletters 1934-2008) C TRUCTUS Line BOSTON ATHEN/EUM ALHENAUNA Digital Collections BROWSE A TO Z BROWSE BY CATEGORY VIEW FULL COLLECTION HELP Search ADVANCED SEARCH Results 2 of 88 Home Athenrum Items, A Library Letter From the Boston Athenium (Newsletters 1934-2008) Page 2 Reference URL No. 035: November, 1945 PAGE 2 2 of 4 Thumbnails Content View Description Page Flip View No. 035: November, 1945 PDF Text 21 found in document Received a gift of papers from the late GBD relating to pelsons "closely associated with 'the BA. of highree interest are u ms. letters on Athenasam affairs from Natherial bruditch to Thomas Handasyd Perkeies and Page 1 Thomas Wien Word written between 1826 ad 1839. There are also notes ié social life of Boston. One isan onswer to Many a invitation to denner alto spend the right at the Junicy, / January 1908, ad signed "WilliamEveratty" house of george Dorr and his mother in booton It is dated ) Page 2 expressly he doubts about his ability to cone us thout servants +volets for "I can wait upon masof, harrydone the effort? Everett then describes annoy way behaviors of d desire to be let alone. so for 50 odd years, much 4 better thousy other man. Page 3 Object Description [Note: Enoui ufery to Mary Contributors(s) Warren, Howland S. Dauds of she verie alein in 1908 Title No. 035: November, 1945 Variant title(s) Athenaeum items. Link to library http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=5619 catalog Page 4 Date 1945 Publisher Boston : Boston Athenaeum Physical V. : ill. ; 23-28 cm. description Summary No. 1 (Mar. 1934) Issue for Nov. 2004 incorrectly numbered 131 was issued between no. 132 (Apr. 200 no. 133 (summer 2005). Numbering duplicates that of no. 131 (Dec. 2003). Frequency varies. Athenae manuscript index compiled by Howland S. Warren. Source No35_1945_November.pdf Rights Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more inf see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46 Description Title Page 2 Back to top About the Boston Athenaeum Rights & Reproductions Contact Us http://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16057coll15/id/231/rec/2 2/2 Notes on the Text Hodges wrote quite legibly in pen or pencil, and I have retained his spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. The few words I could not make out I have enclosed in carats :>. For the sake of clarity, I have supplied some words and letters, as well as some Greek and "Anglo- Greek" words in brackets. I have quoted from two principal printed sources in the text. The first, Almon Danforth Hodges and His Neighbors: An Autobiographical Sketch of a Typical Old New Englander (Boston: Privately printed, 1909), is referred to as ADH; the other, Record of the Service of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863 (Boston: Privately printed, 1887), as Record. Bibliographical Notes Useful general reference sources for Civil War history include: Stephen David Heidler, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000); Mark Mayo Boatner III, The Civil War Dictionary (New York: David McKay Co., 1959); E.B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971); Patricia L. Faust, ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row, 1986). Two superb illustrated biographical sources are Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray ([Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press, 1959) and Generals in Blue ([Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press, 1964). Also consulted were: Robert B. Roberts, Encyclopedia of Historic Forts (New York: Macmillan, 1988); Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989); Warren Ripley, Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970); United States. Naval History Division, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (Washington: 1964-); Edward S. Farrow, A Dictionary of Military Terms (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1918). The exploits of the Massachusetts regiments are detailed in James L. Bowen's Massachusetts in the War 1861-1865 (Springfield, MA: Clark W. Bryan & Co., 1889). There are a number of excellent Web sites on various aspects of the Civil War and Civil War period, partic- ularly www.civilwarhome.com. Also consulted for specific topics were: (army organization) www.nps.gov/gett/getttour/armorg.htm (dis- I 6 eases) www.carolyar.com; www.cdc.gov; www.buildingbetterhealth. com; (music) www.ccel.org; www.cyberhymnal.org www.negrospiritu- als.com. Besides the essential Record, other accounts of the Forty-fourth Regiment include: De Forrest Safford, ed. The Bay State Forty-Fourth: A Regimental Record (Boston: M.O. Hall & Co., [1863]); Zenas T. Haines, Letters From the Forty-Fourth Regiment M.V.M.: A Record of a Nine Months' Regiment in the Department of North Carolina in 1862-3 (Boston: Printed at the Herald Job Office, 1863) and the edited version of these letters by William C. Harris, In the Country of the Enemy: The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts Corporal (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999); Kinston, Whiteball and Goldsboro (North Carolina) Expedition, December, 1862 (New York: W.W. Howe, 1890); Henry Austin Clapp, Letters to the Home Circle: The North Carolina Service of Pvt. Henry A. Clapp, Company F, Forty-Fourth Massacbusetts Volunteer Militia, 1862-1863 (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1998); and John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves From a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass., Dep't of No. Carolina from September, 1862, to June, 1863 (Boston: L.F. Lawrence & Co., 1878). There is also a Web site devoted to Massachusetts in the Civil War: www.letterscivil- war.com. Information on Hodges and his Harvard classmates is found in the Class of 1864 Secretary's Reports (1864-), and their photographs in Portraits: 1864-1904 (Boston: Printed for the Class, 1904). As discussed in the introduction, the history of Roxbury as a com- munity in the nineteenth (and twentieth) centuries is fragmentary. Important primary sources detailing day-to-day affairs are the news- papers published in Roxbury, such as the Roxbury Gazette and Norfolk County American (1847-1850), the Norfolk County Gazette (1849-1865), and the Roxbury Gazette and South End Advertiser (1861-1895). The Roxbury Directory: Containing the City Record, the Names of Citizens, and a Business Directory (published annually, 1847-50, biennially 1852-60 by Adams, Sampson, & Co.) contains valuable demographic and econom- ic detail. The growth and development of Roxbury is the subject of the mayor's annual address to the city council (1847-1868). The numerous pamphlets that were issued during the eighteen-fifties and eighteen sixties on the subject of annexation by Boston, such as Another Word for Old Roxbury: In Reply to the Report of a Committee in Favor of Annexation (Boston: J.M. Hewes & Co., 1852), frame this interesting debate. Nostalgia is the theme of Roxbury Centennial: An Account of the II7 Celebration in Roxbury, November 22, 1876 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1877), an account of a dinner party less than a decade after annexation where the thought of a suburban and independent Roxbury seemed like a distant memory. The Dudley School student essayists of Roxbury Past and Present (Roxbury, MA?: [between 1914 and 1918]) allude to Roxbury as a working-class neighborhood of Boston that was increasingly the home to Irish-American and Jewish-American families. The remarkable A Story of Eliot Church by Walter E. Davis (Boston: Eliot Congregational Church of Roxbury [1959]]) is a church history that portrays the changing social dynamics of the community in the twentieth century, particularly as a consequence of the migration of African American families to Boston from the South after World War II. The Roxbury Crossing Historical Trust is working to "collect, pre- serve and promote the cultural, historical and authentic history of the Greater Roxbury area and its residents." The Trust's home page is www.rcht.org. The Roxbury Heritage Trail, a Web project of the 2003 advanced placement history class at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, is a well-executed virtual tour of historical sites in Roxbury, located at www.obonline.org/features/heritage trail/INTRO.HTM. Acknowledgments I want to reiterate my thanks, on behalf of a grateful institution, to Henry H. Meyer, Jr., for his generous support of this project, and to his sister, Mrs. Charles B. Douglas, for sharing the Hodges papers with me. Their devoted stewardship of their family's history will ben- efit students of American culture far into the future. My thanks to Stein Helmrich and Michael Trocchi, Northeastern University Cooperative Education students, who, as interns, made the initial transcription of the diary of Almon D. Hodges, Jr., and to my colleagues in the Reference Department, Mary Warnement, who helped with Hodges' Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Greek words and phrases, and Lisa Starzyk-Weldon, for producing scans of the illustra- tions used. I am grateful to Richard Wendorf, for his constant encour- agement and kind words, and to Ann Wadsworth for taking the time amid other pressing publication projects to edit my text. 118 BOSTON ATHEN/EUM Reports for 1974 [ 42 ] Schedule C RESTRICTED FUNDS BOOKS Principal Income 9/30/74 9/30/74 Appleton, Samuel $ 30,515.91 $ 5,065.14 Billings, Robert Charles 5,000.00 835.50 Bowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll 2,227.92 365.53 Bromfield, John 624,642.05 42,310.71 Cunningham, Henry W. 3,915.74 652.73 Friedman, Lee M. 25,919.31 1,625.19 Gray, Russell 5,000.00 835.50 Green, Charlotte Nichols 5,000.00 835.50 Hemenway, Alfred 5,000.00 835.50 Hersey, Heloise 3,542.00 600.51 Johnson, Harriet 1,000.00 44.68 King, Stanley & Margaret P. 6,000.00 886.20 Lang, Howard W. 20,000.00 2,763.10 Matthews, Albert 4,508.54 616.61 Morse, Samuel T. 7,000.00 591.40 Nichols, Frederick 18,917.35 3,159.22 Nichols, J. Howard 2,000.00 339.42 Nichols, Lyman 10,000.00 1,679.16 Parkman, George F. 66,246.67 11,077.36 Parsons, Susan 4,581.08 222.83 Sullivan, Thomas Russell 1,000.00 156.66 Terry, George F. 1,000.00 46.31 Ward, Thomas Wren 5,000.00 835.50 Income from Securities $76,380.26 Reimbursement for Books sold, lost or destroyed 1,379.89 $858,016.57 $77,760.15 13 NOS. SUBJECTS. l'ROPRIETORS. 19 Marble Copy of the Statue of Cleopatra. W. H. Hodgkinson. 20 The celebrated Statues, called Night and Day," by Michael Angelo. Ilon. T. H. Perkins. The originals of these casts (which form a part of the momument erected in honor of Julian Medici, in the Church of San Lorenzo, at Florence,) are universally consid- cred among the most sublime and poetical conceptions of Michael Angelo. For minute criticisms of this triumph of niodern art, we would refer the reader to the description by Vasari and the opinions of other distinguished writers on the arts. The casts were presented to Col. T. II. Perkins, by our townsman, Horatio Greenough, now residing in Florence, and are, by the kindness of Col. Perkins, deposited at the Athenreum. The following extract from a letter from Mr. Greenough to Col. Perkins, will serve to show that they may be considered as rare acquisitions to the lovers of the Fine Arts in this country - "I became possessed a few month since, of casts from the celebrated statues by Michael Angelo, representing Night and Day. They are proof casts, made to try the moulds ordered here by the King of the French, and were. by the terms of the contract, a perquisite to the moulder. They are for all purposes of study and criticism, identical with their originals, and are in the best state, and quite new." [Extract from Historical Sketches of the Old Painters.") 'Michael Angelo deeply deplored the unhappy state of Florence. The lines written by him under the figure of Night, are expressive of the state of his feelings. Though the softer elements of his character had not been fostered by maternal kindness, there was not wanting a deep spring of sensibility, which circumstances sometimes caused to overflow. Under the celebrated statue of Night, which had been intended for the tomb of Julian de' Medici, Baptist Strozzi wrote the following lines: Night whom thou seest so calmly sleeping Was by an Angel formed. Though by this marble held in keeping, By life the figure's warmed. Yet, should thy mind of doubt partake, Thou need'st but speak and she'll awake. ORIGINAL. " 'La Notte, che tu vedi in s' dolci atti Dormire, fu da un Angelo scolpita In questo sasso ; c perche dorme ha vita; Destala, SC nol credi, e parleratti. "Michael Angelo shortly after observed the writing, and with an emotion which fully evinced his sensibility, wrote this reply, in the person of Night:- Grateful to me is this repose; More grateful still to be of stone. While o'er my country evil flows, To see nor feel is peace alone. Then let me sleep o'er ills forgot: Speak low ! I pray thee wake me not. ORIGINAL Grato mi è il sonno, più l'esser di sasso; Mentre che il daono e la vergogna dura, Non veder, non sentir, m' è gran ventura; Però non mi destar, deh parla basso.'" 21 Marble Copy of the Statue of Cleopatra. Athenzeum. 22 Cast of an antique fragment of a Statue of Hercules, called the Torso. Athenicum. 23 Cast of the Statue of the Venus de Medicis. Athenwium. 24 Cast of the colossal Head of Juno. George C. Ward. 25 Marble Bust of Loammi Baldwin, Esq. Athenaum. 14 Nos. SUBJECTS. PROPRIETORS. 26 Group of Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman, by Ball Hughes. Mr. Dorr, N. Y. "I am half distracted, Capt. Shandy, said Mrs. Wadman, holding up her cambric handkerchief to her left eye, as she approached the door of my uncle Toby's sentry.box- a mote-on sand-or something- know not what, got into this eye of mine-do look into it-is it not in the white "In saying which, Mrs. Wadman edged herself close in beside my uncle Toby, and squeezing herself down upon the corner of his bench, she gave him an opportunity of doing it without rising up- Do look into it --said she. Honest soul! thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever child looked into a raree-show box: and 't were as much sin to have hurt thee. If a man will be peeping of his own accord into things of that nature-I've nothing to say to it. 'My uncle Toby never did : and I will answer for him, that he would have sat qui- etly upon a sofa from June to January, (which, you know, takes in both the hot and cold months) with an eye as fine as the Thracian Rhodope's beside him, without being able to tell, whether it was a black or blue one. "The difficulty was to get my uncle Toby to look at one at all. eT is surmounted. And "I sec him yonder with his pipe pendulous in his hand, and the ashes falling out of it -looking and looking-then rubbing his eyes-and looking again-with twice the good nature that ever Galileo looked for a spot in the sun. In vain for by all the powers which animate the organ-Widow Wadman's left eye shines this moment as lucid as her right-there is neither mote, or sand, or dust, or chaff, or speck, or particle of opaque matter floating in it-there is nothing, my dear paternal uncle! but one lambent delicious fire, furtively shooting from every part of it, in all directions, into thinc- If thou lookest, uncle Toby in search of this mote one moment longer-thou art undone." Tristrum Shandy, chap. 24.] 27 Marble Bust of the Hon. Daniel Webster, by Powers. Athenxum. 28 Cast of the Statue of the Venus of the Capitol. Athenrum. 29 Marble Bust of the late Hon. Judge Prescott, by Frazec. Athenium. 30 Cast of the Apollino. Athenicum. 31 Marble Bust of the Hon. John Lowell, by Frazee. Athenxum. 32 Cast of the Statue Antinous. Athenaram. 33 Marble Bust of Sappho, after the antique. W. H. Hodgkinson. 34 Marble Bust of A. Slidell McKensie, by Henry Dexter. Athenxum. 35 Cast of the Statue of the Discobolus. George F. Ward. 36 Christian Pilgrim, by T. G. Crawford. Mrs. Cleveland. 37 Marble copy of Canova's Statuc of the Dancing Girl. Athenium. 38 Marble Bust of Daniel Webster, by Frasec. Athenxum. 39 Cast of the antique Statue of the Boy extracting a Thorn from his foot. Athenium. 40 Genius of Fishing. Copy from Tenerani. N. Perkins. 41 Genius of Hunting. Copy from Tenerani. E. N. Perkins. 42 Cast of the Statue of Cupid, by Trentanove. Athenium. 43 Marble Bust of a Vestal. 44 Small Marble copy of the Statue of Diana hunting. W. H. Hodgkinson 45 Dante-The Original Statuette. C. C. Perkins. 46 Original model of the statue of the Dying Indian, by P. Stephenson. 47 Statuette of the Indian hunting the Buffalo, by P. Stephenson. 48 Marble Bust of the late Hon. John Quincy Adams. Athenxum. 49 Marble copy of the Statue of the Venus de Medicis. W. H. Hodgkinson 50 Marble Bust of Chief Justice Marshall, by Frazee. Athenaum. 51 Marble Statue of Ceres. (From the Bonaparte Collection.) E. W. Dana. 52 Cast of the Bust of the IIon. Josiah Quincy, by T. G. Crawford. 53 Cast of the Statue of the Venus of the Bath. Athenium. THE BOSTON ATHENAUM Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 COMPILED AND EDITED BY Robert F. Perkins, Jr. & William J. Gavin III Mary Margaret Shaughnessy, Assistant Editor THIS THE LIBRARY OF THE BOSTON ATHENAUM BOSTON, MASSAC 11 USETTS . 1980 CONTENTS FOREWORD XI PREFACE XIII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XV LIST OF EXHIBITION CATALOGUES 3 ARTIST INDEX 9 OWNER INDEX 177 SUBJECT INDEX 233 DESCRIPTIVE COMMENTARIES 279 You Gallery Arhenzum of paintings exhibitions Jt recladed the Boston both Athenzum. old gruster and Wood engraving from Ballou's Pictorial Vol 8, March is Marguers (Plate NX/) contemporary appears at the humpern top left and of the American printing William 31, Moren 1855, Hunr's p. 201. ART EXHIBITION INDEX OWNER 197 DORR. EDWARD Madanna and Child. after Repharl 1870-1872 Jordaens, Jacob, Marriage of Alexander the Great, from the Gallery of the Madonna and Injant Christ and Saint, after Cimabue, 1857-1873 Prince of Orange, 1843 Speeckaert. Michel Joseph. Flowers, 1837, 3853-1874 Strutt, William Thomas Interior of a Cottage. after Ostade 1857 DORR. J. The Smokers. after Teniers, 1857-1873. Haigdon, Sylvester Phelps, Pulpit Roch Nahant, 1861. Tomkins, Peltro William, David with the Head of Golisth, after Guey. Unknown, Landscape with ruins, 1829. cino, 859.1873 Girl with a Horn.Rook after R Schidone, 1857-1873 DORR, JOHN Holy Family, after A del Sarto, 1857.18 Rosa da Tixoli, Carlic Drinking, 1829. Madanna and Child after Correggio. 1857-1873 DORR, SAMUEL A. Madanna and Child, after Raphael 1857 1873 Adriactissen, Alexander, Still Life. 1832. Madonna, Child and St. John, after Raphaci. 1839-1873 Meulen, Adams From van der. Winter Scree, 1832. Madanna, Inlant Christ, and St. john. after A. del Sarto, 1857 1873. Teniers, David, 11, Smokers (2), 1832. Madones. Injant Christ Elizabeth, and St. John after A. del Unknown, Christ bearing the cross, 1832 Sarta 18601893 Dogs, 1832 Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth after S. del Piembo 1857-1873. St. Anne, 1832. Tomkins, P. W. and Hodgson. W. W. Danie. after Titran, 1857 1873 DOW, MR. (S.) Holy Family after Bordone 1870 1871. Hayward, Joshua Henshaw, Portrait of s Lady. 1843. Lot and six Daughters, after G. Reni, 1853-1873 Newton, Gilbert Stuart, Mr. Rates of London, 1842 Tomkins, P. W and Violet, P. N., Diana and Action. after Titian, 1857 1873. DOWLEY. LEVI A. Uwins. Thomas. St Amand Receiving St. Raho after Rubens. 1857-1869. Brown, George Loring, lake Albano, 1855. 1856. Woman taken in Adultan after Rubens, 18551873 Landwage 1855 (1). 1856 (3). 1857 (3), 1859. Violet, Pierre Norl, Christ in the Sepulchre, after Guerrino, 1857 1873. Moonlight, 1855. 1856 Injant Christ, after G. Reni, 1852-1873. Rachel recreting the Household Gods of Lohan after P. do Cor. DOWSF. THOMAS, INCLUDING WATERCOLOR COLLECTION tona. 1857.1873 Andriessen, Anthony, Dead Game. 1827, 1831. Samuel and his Mother after Rembrands 1857 1873. Ansell, Charles and P. W. Tomkins, Allegory of Human Life, after Vielet, P. N., and Tomkins, P. W., Diana and Acteon. after Titian, 1857 Titian. 1857-1873 1873. Holy Family, alter Bordone, 1857.186. Westall William. FM on the water at Dort. after Cuyr. 1857-1873. Craig. William Marshall, A Windmill, often Rembrands 1857.1873. Wight, Moses, Thomas Doure 18th 1850 1871. Death of Regulus, after S. Rold, 1857.1873 Wonverman Philips (after). Village Festival, 1857-1873 Flight into Egypt. after A. Carrarci, 1857.1873. Unknown, Christ calling Peter and Andrew 1852-1859 handscape. after Claude 1850.1873. Head a female, 1837. Landscape and Figures, after Cloude. 1857-1873. Head a light and shadow, 183r. Landscape and Figures, after P. Potter, 1857 1873. Holy Family. 1858.1870 Landreape and Figures Mid Day alter Claude 860-1873. Jetus led from the Garden of Gathremane, 1857 1874. Landscape with Rainbow after Rutens. 1857.1873 Madanna and Child, 1858-1870. Portrait of Himsell, after G. Dou. 1857-1873. River scene by moonlight, 1831. Rachel Secreting the Household Gods of Lahon, after Murillo, Rural one 1831. 1857-1873 Sunret 1857-1873 St. Amand Receiving St. Babo. alter Rubens 1870.1873. DRAPER. I.. The Happy Shepherds, after Berchem. 1857-1873 Darley, Jane Cooper, Portraits of Two Children, 1830. Domenichino (after). Raptism of Christ 1857-1873. Doughtr. Thomas. Landscape (2), 1807. 1831. DUFF. J. Eusebi, Luis, Incredulity of St. Thomas, after ran der Werf. 1857 Currie. George. Pleasant Dev. 186s. 1873 Hall, George Henry, The Fruit Seller, 1864. Evans, Richard, Portrait of Berchem, after Rembrandt, 1857.1873. Hiddeman, Friedrich Peter. The New Coat. 186g Greuze, Jean Baptitte, Chapesu Blanc. 1863. Jolly, Baron, Bossuet Peraching before the Court, 186g Head of a Girl. 1857-1873. Lanfant de Men Francois Louis, Hims to the Virgin, 1864 Le Nieligh 1827. Morviller, Joseph, Cold Morning 1864. Grimani, Holert Jacobux, Head of a Girl, 1859.1874 Roffieen. lean Francois Xavier, Lake Luccene, 1864. Guercino (after). Jesus led from the Garden of Gethremane by the High Schen, Henri van, The Bird's Neit, 1804. Priett, 1857.1874. Tschaggeny (Charles Philogene2), Horses. 1864. Hodgenn, W. W., Christ Appearing in St. Peter, after A. Carracci, 1857- Verboeckhoven Eugène Joseph, Sheep. 1864 1873. Weber, Paul, Old Man of the Mountain 1864. Christ Calling Pelm and Andrew after Domenichino. 1857 1873 Unknown Democritus and Heraclitus, 186a. Gaston de Foir, after Giorgione. 1857-1873 Egypt, Right into, 1864 Madonna and Child, after Raphael 1857-1869. 1873. DUPEE. A. Marriage of St. Catherine after Parmicinino, 1857-1873 Bradford, William, leckes Arround. 1864. The Name after Grirlandajo. 1857-1873 The Virion of St. Augustine, alter Garolalo, 1857-1873. DURAND. ASHER B. Huysum. Jan van, Fruit Piece, 1827. 1857 1878. Casilear, John W., Landscape 1853. Flowers. 1857-1874. DUTTON, MRS. Poussin (after). The Story of Calisto. 1857-1873 Allston, Washington, Ecening Hymn. 1857, 1859. Raphael (after). Holy Family. 1857-1871, 1872, 1873. Satchwell, Robert William. A Female Head after Giotto, 1857-1873 DUTTON, L Heads of Aporties, after Giotto, 1857-1873. Allston, Washington, Evening Hymn. 1850. CLASS AND CULTURE IN BOSTON: THE ATHENAEUM, 1807-1860 RONALD STORY University of Massachusetts, Amherst RECENT STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY Boston elite handily survived in the face of the democratic capitalist forces of ante-bellum America. In Boston, as in other cities, the elite actually in- creased its control over the economic system and its share of total com- munity wealth. Moreover, this elite seems to have achieved a unique cohe- siveness and a singular cultural complexion, so much so that by the 1860s it had acquired the distinctive title of "Brahmin Boston." It may in fact be argued that the ante-bellum era witnessed the birth, rather than the death, of a genuine Boston upper class. ¹ Institution-building, particularly in the economic sphere, was integral to the process of class evolution. By 1850 the Boston elite controlled a network of commercial, financial and manufacturing enterprises which extended their sway throughout New England and helped them to maintain their prominence and identity in the decades to come.2 The evolution of a viable social class, however, entails more than economic activity. It involves such matters as the modification of individualistic or acquisitive behavior in the interests of a larger group; the integration of potentially rival families, eco- nomic interests and politico-religious groupings; the harmonization of business and nonbusiness, particularly cultural, elements; the acculturation 'An upper class may be said to differ from an elite in the greater proportion of community wealth it controls; in the greater cohesion of its occupational, familial and generational components; and in its greater consciousness of its interests vis-à-vis antagonistic social ele- ments. This is the meaning of the terms as employed here, with elite being used in general for the era before the 1850s and upper class thereafter. See, e.g., Robert K. Lamb, "The Entrepreneur and the Community," in William Miller, ed., Men in Business (New York: Harper, 1962). pp. 94-98, 106-13, 119, 350; Vera Shlakman, Economic History of a Factory Town: A Study of Chicopee. Massachusetts (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. 20, nos. 1-4, Oct. 1934-July 1935), 39-42, 243-47. American Quarterly 27 (1975):178-199. Note: T.W.Ward is Treasurer of Athenaeum. 1828-1836, succeeding Nathan appleton (1816-1827).Josiah V.P. quincy succeeded T.W.W. F.C. gray (1826-1832), President(883-1836).