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...successful precedent when he proposed the project to the other institutions. He was the leader in 1942 in setting up the New England Deposit Library, in Allston, for the use of Harvard, Tufts, Boston College, Boston University, Radcliffe, Simmons, M.I.T., Boston Public Library, Boston Medical Library, Boston Athenaeum, Massachusetts State Library, and Massachusetts Historical Society...
...library for books that people don't read. It contains those gems of Harvard's 5,000,000-volume aggregation which have been found to be least in demand. Keeping these company are the littlest-read books from 11 other libraries, including the Boston Public Library and the Boston Athenaeum...
Burr died on January 18 in his Newton home at the age of 83. He was a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Athenaeum, and left $10,000 to each in his will...
Active for many years in social service work in Boston, Burr was also a Trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Athenaeum. He was a director of the investment firm of Coffin and Burr...
After graduation, at which his classmate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read a paper on the need for a native American literature, Hawthorne went home to his mother's house in Salem and worked at writing. In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English. Cantwell has looked up the Hawthornes' library record. He deliberately studied New England, reading among other things the files of Salem newspapers during Hawthorne's lifetime. "The books," Cantwell writes, "provide an almost weekly record...