Word: collectors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Leverett Saltonstall, who has been appointed Collector of the Port of Boston, to succeed Roland Worthington, is a native of Salem, Massachusetts, and a little more than sixty years of age. He was graduated at Harvard in 1844, and spent three years in the Harvard Law School...
...Leverett Saltonstall, recently appointed Collector of Boston, graduated from Harvard in the class...
...burdensome, and not requisite for the protection of the revenue, and it is therefore prescribed that in such case, if a list of the books and publications comprised in one order, accompanied with the requisite oath of the officer of the institution, is filed in the office of the collector before or with the entry of the first installment, and an affidavit is made by the importing agent on each subsequent entry, the evidence may be accepted as sufficient. A certified copy of such list and oath should also be filed with the naval officer. The regulations specified will...
...case of rare Roman coins, dating back as far as 400 B. C. They are of bronze, silver and gold; the oldest is a huge bronze as, which must have served the ancients, in time of need, as an excellent sling-shot. Unless you are an infatuated coin-collector, you will not spend much time at this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof. Charles Eliot Norton by Thomas Carlyle. Next...
...Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue in favor of opening it, in spite of the anathema carved on the tombstone. Frank Vincent, Jr., whose travels in Burmah...