BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX! IITSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 6. Salem, Mass., Jan., 1874. No. 1. 



One Dollar a' Yearjn Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, Jan. 5, 1874. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Adjourned to 

 Thursday, the 8th. 



Adjourned Meeting, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1874. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock, adjourned from 

 Monday, the 5th. The President in the chair. Records 

 read. 



The Secretary announced the following correspon- 

 dence : — 



From John J. Babson, Gloucester, Dec. 8; Samuel A. Drake. Boston, Dec. 4; 

 G. L. Gleason, Manchester, Dec. 23; J. L. Hawley, Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 1; Frank 

 E. Hotchkiss, New Haven, Dec. 4; J. F. LeBaron, Lynn, Dec. 1, 13; H. M. Meek, 

 Dec. 2; J. L. Robinson, Wenham, Dec. 1, 8; A. C. Goodell, Jr., Dec. 9; Sampson, 

 Davenport & Co., Boston, Dec. 5; Wisconsin State Historical Society, Dec. 2; John 

 M. Bradbury, Ipswich, Dec. 20, 2G; Oliver Carlton, Dec. 18; George W.Clark, 

 Newburyport, Dec. 25; X. Cleaveland, Westport, Conn., Dec. 18, 29; Henry Dexter, 



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