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Chapter on Amerigo Vespucci for Vol. II. (copyright 1886) of the Nar- 

 rative and Critical History of America ; edited by Justin Winsor, 

 Librarian of Harvard University, Corresponding Secretary Massachu- 

 setts Historical Society. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin, 

 and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1889. In seven 

 volumes, royal octavo. 



Mr. Gay wrote constantly for the press for nearly forty years. 

 To this work he brought good judgment, delicate discrimination, 

 and nice taste, giving a high literary quality to his articles not dis- 

 tinctively journalistic. The same conscientiousness which formed 

 the manner decided the matter of his writings. Their moral 

 purpose was the service he did for his day and generation. 

 Debarred from pursuing his chosen profession, that of the law, 

 from his unwillingness to take the oath supporting a Constitution 

 which recognized slavery, he threw himself with enthusiasm, 

 while still young, into the anti-slavery cause under the leadership 

 of Garrison. The love of freedom and moral courage which in- 

 duced this step directed his course later as managing editor of 

 " The New York Tribune." Henry Wilson said of him, " The 

 man deserved well of his country who kept ' The Tribune ' a war 

 paper in spite of Greeley." 



Mr. Gay came naturally by his radical turn of thought, by his 

 independence, courage, strong moral convictions, and good fight- 

 ing qualities ; for in his veins ran the blood of John Cotton and 

 the Mathers, Nehemiah Walter and Ebenezer Gay, among the 

 divines of Colonial New England, and Governor Bradford and 

 James Otis among those who shaped her political fortunes. 



Martin Gay. 



He was born in Boston, Feb. 11, 1803. His father, Hon. 

 Ebenezer Gay, moved to Hingham when Martin was very young, 

 and many years of his life were spent in Hingham. He was dis- 

 tinguished as a chemist, and his reputation was established in 

 Europe as well as in this country. The family have in their 

 possession a genuine Etruscan vase which was presented to him 

 by the Pope's librarian, Medici Spada. Dr. Gay died in Bos- 

 ton, May 15, 1850. 



A Statement of the Claims of Charles T. Jackson to the Discovery of the 

 Applicability of Sulphuric Ether to the Prevention of pain in Surgical 

 Operations. Boston. Printed by David Clapp. 1847. Pamphlet. 

 29 pp. and an Appendix. 



Benjamin Gleason. 



An Oration pronounced before the Republican Citizens of the Town of 

 Hingham, in commemoration of American Independence, July 4, 1807. 

 Boston. Printed by Hosea Sprague. 1807. (Copies are rare.) 



