B U L L E T 1 N 



OF THE 



ESSEX! INSTITUTE. 



Vol. 6. Salem, Mass., July, 1874. No. 7. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Field Meeting at Ipswich, Wednesday, June 3, 1874. 



The first field meeting, the present season, took place 

 this clay in the town of Ipswich, most of the party going 

 in the first, and others taking some of the later trains. 

 It is now several years since a field meeting has been held 

 in this old shire town, formerly the place where several 

 of the courts held their regular sessions each year. The 

 county buildings arc now confined to the house of correc- 

 tion and the county insane institution, on the banks of 

 the Ipswich river — the old court house having been 

 taken down, and the old probate court house having since 

 been given over to Odd Fellowship and the public postal 

 service. Some forty years since, when the old stacc 

 coach was the only public conveyance, the town had two 

 public houses, with one or two of lesser note, which is 

 more than can be summed up at the present day. Ipswich 

 has a public library, the gift of the late Mr. Augustine 

 Heard. Though this one is a comparatively modern in- 

 stitution, semi-public libraries are not altogether new to 

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