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Professorship — of establishing a sort of Ambassador Ex- 

 traordinary of Letters at the Court of St. James — were 

 embodied by Mr. Kingsley in an extended address issued 

 at Cambridge, which it was hoped might influence the 

 authorities of the University to accept the proposal. But 

 the movement bore no fruit. 



To-day we have the great pleasure to welcome again 

 the daughter who visited Salem with Mr. Kingsley and 

 made the notes, since published, of his American jour- 

 ney. She has recorded in those notes the fact that the 

 Old World, South of England names of places and per- 

 sons which he found surviving here about Salem were to 

 him a never failing source of interest and pleasure. She 

 will address us to-day on Warkwickshire with something 

 of the personality and social surroundings of Shakes- 

 peare, a timely topic, since our Baconian friends have 

 done what they could of late, to persuade us that Shakes- 

 peare had little or no personality and no social surround- 

 ings worthy of mention. Miss Kingsley has lived in 

 that delightful midland county — the heart of England 

 — to which many of us are no strangers, and where the 

 name " Shakespeare " may still be read in the simple an- 

 nals on church-yard gravestones and in one instance, at 

 least, on the door-plate of a dressmaker pursuing her 

 art to-day. 



I have the honor and very great pleasure to i)resent 

 Miss Kingsley. 



[Miss Kingsley's address was listened to with much in- 

 terest l)y a large and critical audience.] 



An adjourned meeting of the Institute was held June 18, 

 Vice President Kantoul in the chair. The death of our 

 late President, the Rev. Edmund B. Willson, was referred 

 to. 



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