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Prises. 4 prizes offered annually for the best essays on subjects in 

 American history. Two subjects are proposed each year; and two 

 prizes are awarded for each subject, the first prizes being $40, and 

 the second $25. Competition open to graduates of the various Boston 

 high schools in the current and preceding years. The essayists of past 

 years (1881 to date) have been organized into the Old South His- 

 torical Society, which holds monthly meetings. 



Prince Society. 



Address. 12 Bosworth Street, Boston, Mass. 



History. Founded May 25, 1858, as the Prince Society for Mutual Pub- 

 lication; incorporated March 18, 1874, under present name. The 

 Society was named in honor of the Rev. Thomas Prince (b. 1687, d. 

 1/58), author of "A Chronological History of New England in the 

 Form of Annals." 



Ref.: American book clubs, by A. Growoll (New York, 1897) P- 55-86 Pur- 

 pose and work of the Prince Society, by the Rev. E. F. Slafter. (In Sir 

 Ferdinando Gorges and his province of Maine, p. 333-340. v. infra). 



Object. Publication of rare works in print or manuscript, relating to America. 

 Meetings. Annually in Boston on 25th of May (anniversary of birth of Rev. Thomas 



Prince) or on following day if this falls on Sunday. 

 Membership. 189 members ; including 90 libraries and other institutions. Members 



are required to buy the publications of the society at prices fixed by the council ; 



no other assessment. 



Publications. 



PUBLICATIONS . . . Boston, 1865-1903. 29 v. 8. (v. 4, 4.) 



The volumes have no serial numbering, but are given in list at end of v. 



[29] in the following order : 

 I. Wood's New England's prospect. 1865. 

 2-3. The Hutchinson papers. 1865. 2 v. 



4. John Dunton's Letters from New England. Ed. by W. H. Whitmore. 1867. 

 5-7. The Andros tracts. Ed. by W. H. Whitmore. 1868-74. 3 v. 



8. Sir William Alexander and American colonization. Ed. by E. F. Slafter. 



1873. 



9. John Wheelright. His writings . . . Ed. by C. H. Bell. 1876. 



10. Voyages of the Northmen to America. Ed. by E. F. Slafter. 1877. 

 11-13. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain. Tr. by C. P. Otis. Ed. by E. F. 



Slafter. 1878-82. 3 v. 



14. The new English Canaan of Thomas Morton. Ed. by C. F. Adams, jr. 1883. 



15. Sir Walter Raleigh and his colony in America. Ed. by I. N. Tarbox. 1884. 



16. Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, 1652-1684. Ed. by G. D. Scull. 1885. 



17. Capt. John Mason, the founder of New Hampshire. With a memoir by 

 C. W. Tuttle. Ed. by J. W. Dean. 1887. 



18-20. Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his province of Maine. Ed. by J. P. Baxter. 

 1890. 3 v. 



