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...library of Yale university has been presented by J, S. Morgan with a copy of the Fac-Similes of Manuscripts Relative to America from 1763 to 1783, in the archives of England, France, Holland and Spain. Two hundred copies only of the work will be printed and the plates will be destroyed as quickly as the complete work is issued. The work will comprise 100 volumes, the cost is $2,500, and ten years will be required to complete...
Another valuable article announces the discovery last summer of a portrait of Washington hitherto unknown and uncatalogued, belonging to a Mr. Peter de Vries, of Arnhem, Holland. The circumstances in regard to the discovery of the portrait are very singular and are well worth the reading. An unpublished fac-simile letter of Washington to James Duane in 1780 also appears. The other papers contributed are: "A Canadian-American Liaison," by Watson Griffing; "The Oriental Account of the Discovery of America;" by A. J. Hall; "The Mound-Builders and the North American Indians," by J. H. Patton; "Slavery in New York...
...service, held yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel, attracted a large crowd. The service was conducted by Professor Francis G. Peabody assisted by Rev. William Lawrence of Cambridge. The choir was strengthened by the university glee club, giving in all a chorus of over fifty voices. They sang "Domine Salvam Fac," by Gounod, "Ave Verum," by Saint-Saens, and a Harvest Anthem "Ye Shall Dwell in the Land," by Stanier, the first two pieces for men's voices. Professor Peabody delivered an interesting address based on the figure of a shepherd leading his flocks so often used in the Bible...
...very agreeable to be able to conclude with the statement that, thanks to permission courteously accorded, fac-similies of the entire document, which measures some seventeen inches by twenty, are now being executed. They will be of the full size of the original, and will leave nothing to be desired in style of production.- Letter to the London Academy...
...natives and sent to London, whence they came by purchase into the possession of Harvard College. In connection with the foregoing, it may be mentioned that Dr. Cyrus Adler of Johns Hopkins announced that the National Museum at Washington is about to form a complete collection of casts and fac-similes of seals coming from Messopotanna. It is intended eventually to include cylinders, slabs and tablets in the collection...