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that the paper of the pamphlet is of Dutch inamifacture and that 

 it bears a forged AVhatman watermark of early date iu the history 

 of the firm. Having undertaken this enquizy I have been anxious 

 to pursue it to the end in every detail, although fully aware that 

 the identification of ])aper and watermark throws little light on 

 the date of the pamphlet, for iu the words of JSLr. Levris Evans: — 



Should auvone in America, say in tlie seventies, have contemplated a literary 

 forgery purporting to belong to the forties, he might easily ha»'e got enougii 

 suitable ])aper for the purpose of printing a few copies, either from some old 

 blank books or conceivably irom some little lot iu stock in a printer's ware- 

 house .... Aug. IS, 19lo. 



9. A Manuscript Lecture entitled " Life and the Cosmosite " as 

 Evidence for the BooJcIet dated 1849. 



Mr. J. F. Sleeper has- kindly permitted me to see the following 



letter addressed to his father : — 



Boston, Nov. 5/50. 

 My Dear Sir, 



You are cordially invited to deliver jj^our Lecture — Life and the 

 Cosmosite at the meeting of the Society * next Monday. 



Ever &c., 



James W. Stone t. 

 Mr. Slee])er. 



Accompanying the letter was a manuscript of rather closely 

 written pages (8|-x6| in.), bearing the title "Life and the Cos- 

 mosite," and purporting to be the lecture of Xov. 11, 1850, 

 delivered iu response to Dr. Stone's invitation. The lecturer 



* The Massachusetts Medical Society is the only one which Mr. H. Gr. 

 Wadlin, Librarian of the Public Library of the City of Boston, can suggest. 

 He kindly wrote, Feb. "12. 1*J14 : — "A search of the Boston newspapers of 

 Monday. November 11, 1850, and previous and subsequent dates, revealed no 

 notice of the lecture by G. W. Sleeper. 



" No mention of the lecture before the Massachusetts Medical Society is 

 found in 'An Index of Medical Communications, Library of Practical 

 Medicine, and Publications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1790-190L 

 Prepared by the Recordmg Secretary. Boston, Clapp, 1903, 40 pp., 8". ' " 



G. W. Sleeper's lecture would hardly fall into the category of " Medical 

 Communications," so that the absence of a record is probably unimportant. 



t The following information has been very kindly sent to me, Feb. 12, 1914, 

 by Mr. Horace G. Wadlin ; — 



The 1850 Boston Directory gives the address of Dr. J. W. Stone as 

 6 Bowdoin Square, h. do. "The Harvard Medical School, a History &c. by 

 Thomas F. Harrington," Vol. 3, p. 480, No. 794, has the following record of 

 Dr. Stone: — 



"James Wincliell Stone, A.B. 1843; A.M.; b. Oct. '26, 1824, Boston; 

 d. Aug. 20, 1863, Dorchester. Practiced Boston. Collector Intermil Eevenue, 

 3d. Massachusetts District. M. M. S. S." From 1857-1862 Dr. Stone's 

 residency was Cottage Street, Dorchester. 



" Harvard College, Class of 1843, Memorabilia, 1883, Prepared by Wm. A. 

 Eichard?on," has the following entry relating to Dr. Stone:— 



" James W. Stone, Boston (Roxbury, Mass.), Descendants, Ella G. Stone 

 Florence, Italy ; Frances Tyler Stone, Florence, Italy." 



