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The Rev. William Orne White of Brookline was next 

 introduced as one who was here with a triple claim to be 

 heard, for he was not only the son of Judge Daniel 

 Appleton White, who was long the first President of the 

 Essex Institute and its greatest early promoter, but also 

 the son of that Judge Daniel Appleton White who was, 

 for as many years, the last President of the Essex His- 

 torical Society whose successor we are, and the first Pres- 

 ident of the Salem Lyceum, whose successor we are to be. 



Mr. White replied : 

 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



The mention of that name compels me, first, to say that 

 for me to lose such a friend and inspirer has been impossi- 

 ble. Not even death can rob us of those that every pass- 

 ing year does but bury deeper and deeper in the heart. 



When I recur to my earliest recollections of my father, 

 I see bookshelves to left of him, bookshelves to right of 

 him, and bookshelves above him, and yet at evening 

 I find him down in the parlor eagerly cutting the leaves 

 of some new volume belonging to the Athenaeum. 



Well might such a man love the Essex Institute, as he 

 did, indeed, the whole county of Essex. Before the rail- 

 road days, it was a joy of my childhood to sit by him in 

 the chaise which took him to Lynn or Andover or Haver- 

 hill or Newbury port or Gloucester or Ipswich, in his 

 capacity of Judge of Probate. 



Mr. President : it is always a pleasure to read the story 

 of your delightful field meetings. One such occasion I 

 recall thirty-two years ago next summer, when, in the old 

 chinch at Manchester, Congressman Butler and Chief 

 Justice Chase enchained the attention of their listeners, 

 — the one speaking on aerial navigation and a projected 

 phonograph with forty strings ; the other discoursing 



