WILLIAM SUMNER APPLETON. 643 



did not regret it. I was one of those who voted against the 

 amendment which allows a pauper to be chosen Governor of 

 the Commonwealth. I have always regretted the death of 

 the Election Sermon and the murder of Fast Day. I am one 

 of those, apparently few in this country, who think that things 

 are not necessarily bad because old or old-fashioned, and there- 

 fore I deeply regret that Harvard's catalogue of her graduates 

 is no longer printed in Latin. I am one of those who object 

 to the naked boys over the door of Boston's Public Library, as 

 poor in art, worse as part of a seal, and worst of all in their 

 offensive vulgarity." 



To this he added : " I claim the credit of the discovery of 

 the two ' Candler ' manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at 

 Oxford, and the recognition of their value to American gene- 

 alogists. I also claim the credit, at least equally with any 

 other person, of first calling attention to the importance for 

 American genealogists and families of the wills at Doctors' 

 Commons, now Her Majesty's Principal Registry of Probate. 

 ... In 1885 I established the arms and seal of Harvard 

 University, for which I received the formal thanks of the 

 Corporation." 



Filed with this statement was a copy of a clause in a will 

 drawn up by him in June, 18G8, before his marriage, " which 

 circumstances happily kept from realization," and of which he 

 very much wished mention should be made in any record of 

 his life. By it he gave to fifteen trustees, most of whom are 

 no longer living, " the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars, together with my real estate lying on Commonwealth 

 Avenue and Clarendon Street in said Boston, being two lots, — 

 to be held by them in trust, and for such uses and purposes as 

 are understood by the words ' Gallery of Art and School of 

 Design,' and I desire that they should become and be a cor- 

 poration of fifteen members, with power to fill any vacancies in 

 their number, and that the consent and assent of nine should 

 be necessary to any act in order to be binding ; and -that a 

 suitable building be erected on the land in their hands at an 

 expense not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand 



