Allen French papers relating to the proposed transfer of the Adams Tolman Collection of Native American artifacts from the Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library to the Concord Antiquarian Society, 1933 June 7-1934 Nov. 4.

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Allen French papers relating to the proposed transfer of the Adams Tolman Collection of Native American artifacts from the Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library to the Concord Antiquarian Society, 1933 June 7-1934 Nov. 4.

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Papers, 1933-1934, consist of: typed "Arguments for endeavoring to get the Tolman collection of Indian antiquities from the Library to the Antiquarian" (1933 June 7); correspondence (four items, 1933 Sept. 15-29) between French and Percy Whiting Brown regarding possible formation of "Indian Antiquities Society," accomplishment of removal from Library to Society of cases used to house Tolman Collection (but not of collection itself), background of and possible donation to Society by Brown of William Barrett's artifact collection then in Brown's possession (referred to by French as the. (Cont.) Barrett-Tolman Collection, distinct from the Library's Tolman Collection), and the possibility (later realized) of acquiring for the Society the Alfred Winslow Hosmer artifact collection; suggested by-laws of the proposed Concord Indian Society / Musketaquid Indian Society / Concord Archaeological Society (two versions, [late Sept. 1933] and [Oct. 16?, 1933]); note (1934 Nov. 1), Benjamin L. Smith to Allen French, supporting formation of society but stating "my ideas of the proper method are too different from yours to allow me to take much part in it," (Cont.) and response (1934 Nov. 4) by French.

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Smith, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lincoln), 1900-1981

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French, Allen, 1870-1946

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