Concord Social Library records, 1820-1851.

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Concord Social Library records, 1820-1851.

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Records, 1820-1851, include: documents relating to formation of Social Library, 1820-1821; record book, 1821-1851, containing constitution and bylaws, lists of proprietors and committee members, reports (Standing Committee and Treasurer), minutes, and financial records; unbound Standing Committee reports, 1822-1851; unbound financial records (proprietors' shares, 1821-1851; Treasurer's reports, 1823-1850; bills, accounts, receipts, 1821-1842); and one four-volume set from the Social Library collection (Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Boston: Gray. (Cont.) and Bowen, 1830). The financial records include much evidence of the library's purchase of books from John Stacy and from several Boston booksellers as well. Some records are in Emerson's hand. The volumes of Jefferson's writings were expurgated (as the records show, at the urging of Moses Prichard; see Robert Gross, "Books and Libraries in Thoreau's Concord").

.83 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Concord Social Library (Concord, Mass.)

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Proprietary library (library owned jointly and used by shareholders) in Concord, Mass. Formed 1821. Absorbed membership and collection of earlier Charitable Library Society. Proprietors over the years included Nathan Barrett, Josiah Bartlett, Nathan Brooks, Reuben Brown (Sr. and Jr.), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barzillai Frost, Hersey B. Goodwin, Francis Gourgas, Abiel Heywood, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Samuel Hoar (Jr.), Nathan S. Hosmer, Phineas How, Isaac Hurd, Edward Jarvis, Francis Jar...

Stacy, John, 1790-1866

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...