Notebooks, ca. 1905-ca. 1916.

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Notebooks, ca. 1905-ca. 1916.

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Notes on historical documents pertaining to the research interests of the historian and antiquarian Frederick Lewis Gay. The notes, most of which were taken from public and private sources in Boston, Mass., were prepared by Gay's research assistant John Henry Edmonds. Most of the vols. contain indexes.

24 v.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Gay, Frederick Lewis, 1856-1916

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Edmonds, John Henry, 1873-

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John Henry Edmonds (1873-1929), son of Michael and Joanna M. L. Fechter Edmonds, was born in Boston, Mass. After graduating from the Boston English High School in 1891, he worked in the city surveyor's office until 1895 and then in the city engineer's office unitl 1907. In that year Frederick Lewis Gay (1856-1916), collector of early New England books and manuscripts, engaged Edmonds as his librarian and research secretary. After Gay's death, Edmonds was curator of his patron's bequest of printe...