VOLUME XXIV, now completed, contains the Transactions of the Society at thirteen meetings, from January, 1920, to January, 1922, both included, in continuation of Volume XXI. The Committee gratefully acknowledges the Society's indebtedness to several institutions, and to friends and members of this Society, for permission to reproduce documents in their possession, for the gift of plates, or for other courtesies, namely: to Dr. Octavius Thorndike Howe, Mr. Albert Matthews, Mr. Harold Murdock, Mrs. Charles Edward Ober, Mrs. Charles Robert Sanger, the Cary Memorial Library (Lexington), the Club of Odd Volumes. (Boston), the Library of Congress, the Corporation of Harvard College, the Harvard College Library, the Selectmen of Lexington, the Lexington Historical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Maine Historical Society. For the Committee of Publication, FRED NORRIS ROBINSON, BOSTON, 1 October, 1922. Chairman. Remarks on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) and Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1765), by CHESTER NOYES GREENOUGH Book-plates of Edward Holyoke and Gershom Rawlins, 1704, ex- Remarks on a copy of An Exact Collection Of all Remonstrances, The Pilgrim Spirit, by WINSLOW WARREN. Notes on some Manuscript Sermons preached by the Rev. Simon Comment by HENRY HERBERT EDES The Church of England, Governor John Wentworth of New Comment by OTIS GRANT HAMMOND Remarks by ALFRED JOHNSON, on Two Visits of Daniel Webster 35 A Ghost Benefactor of Harvard College, by ALBERT Matthews Remarks by WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD, on the Suppression Remarks on the Rev. Robert Boucher Nickolls, by PERCIVAL Two Volumes, exhibited by MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE HOWE Note on Robert Elliston (1680-1756), by ALBERT MATTHEWS The Building of Massachusetts Hall, 1717-1720, by WILLIAM Letter of Viscount Bryce, dated 9 November, 1920, communicated Remarks by ALBERT MATTHEWS, on a Society at Harvard College, 1721-1723; on an Agreement between Harvard Students, dated 31 March, 1770; and on the Martimercurian Com- Early Silver belonging to Harvard College, by WILLIAM COOLIDGE The engraved Copper Plate from which the Harvard College Book-plates of three Harvard Clubs, exhibited by EZRA HENRY BAKER: the Knights of the Order of the Pudding Stick, Various Objects relating to Harvard College, exhibited by EZRA Remarks by CHARLES LEMUEL NICHOLS, on a copy of the Bible Note on the Term "God's Acre," by ALBERT MATTHEWS. Note on the Courier Politique de l'Univers, Boston, 1792-1793, by Remarks by JOHN WOODBURY, on a copy of John Brown's An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. . . A Religious Society at Harvard College, 1719, by WILLIAM 309 the Rev. Robert Boucher Nickolls, dated 5 August, 1775. Remarks by JOHN WHITTEMORE FARWELL, in communicating a Letter of William Flint, dated 14 July, 1756. |