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...Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual British Headquarters Papers; 15 folio manuscript volumes of Lord Germain, British Colonial Secretary; and the official files of General Thomas Gage, British Commander-in-Chief, probably the most important bundle of manuscript that ever crossed the Atlantic. Some "items": Burgoyne's and Cornwallis' letters reporting surrender; Benjamin Franklin's letter refusing to compensate Tories; Pitcairn's report of the Battle of Lexington; a letter of Christopher Columbus describing...
...outsiders were more interested in Jilson Setters, the 75-year-old fiddler whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there...
...five members whose six-year terms normally expire in June 1934 are; Homer Gage '82, of Worcester, Joseph Lee '83, of Boston, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, of New York City, Mark Sullivan '00, of Washington, and Leverett Saltonstall '14 of Boston
...this gave him something of a reputation among his fellow-bohemians. and even began to scare him a little. He tried being psychoanalyzed: the analysis was never completed but it gave him a lot to think about. When he married for the second time (in 1919, one Berta-Marie Gage), Greenwich Village smirked behind its hand. ''Some of our surprised and cynical friends gave our marriage six months. I knew it was forever...
President Lowell was present at the meeting of the Overseers in the Faculty Room when they convened at 9.15 o'clock yesterday. Other Overseers present were: Nathan Hayward '95, Philadelphia; James H. Perkins '98, New York; Roger Wolcott '99, Boston; Edward Mallinckrodt '00, Jr. St. Louis; Homer Gage '82, Worcester; Joseph Lee '88, Boston; Jesse I. Straus '93, New York; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Boston; Charles A. Coolidge '81, Boston; Henry James '99, New York; William T. Gardiner '14, Gardiner, Me.; Charles F. Adams '88, Boston; George R. Agassiz 84, president, Boston; Allston Burr '89, Boston; Dwight P. Robinson...