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Mitchell & Co., Haverhill, cloaks, &c., gratuity, $6 ; Brooks 

 Bros., Haverhill, goods and blankets, do., 6 ; C. N. Rhodes, 

 Haverhill; bonnets, premium, 4 ; do., do., fancy goods, gratui- 

 ty, 3 ; W. Jacobs, Haverhill, ladies' cloaks, do., 3 ; J. R. 

 Robinson, Haverhill, boat, do., 3 ; Wm. H. Day, Amesbury? 

 case of files, diploma. 



Warren Ordway, George C. Foster. — Committee. 



FANCY WORK AND WORKS OF ART. 



In compliance with your request, and the practice of the 

 society, we have the honor to submit to you the following 

 report in relation to the Fancy Articles and Fine Arts exhib- 

 ited at your sixty-second annual exhibition, and we are happy 

 to say, that as a whole, the articles contributed to this depart- 

 ment were of a higher order of workmanship than those of 

 last year. 



In the Fancy Articles, there were a number of entries 

 deserving of gratuities which received none, for this reason : 

 if we gave to one we must to more, as there were a number 

 equally deserving, although of different material and different 

 style of needlework. 



Among those deserving of " Honorable Mention," your 

 committee find two landscapes in silk by Adah Feaslee of 

 Haverhill ; an ottoman cover made by M. J. Poor of Haver- 

 hill ; chair stripe by Mrs. S. H. Harris, Jr., Methuen, which 

 was very artistic ; also a lambrequin by Florence Appleton 

 of Haverhill. A tidy representing a young chicken just from 

 the shell, and a rooster, who is asking his youthful descendant, 

 ** does your mother know you are out ?" the expression that 

 of the keenest anxiety ; it was made by Estella C. Dexter of 

 Haverhill. A darned tidy of fine finish by Miss Lizzie West 

 of Haverhill. An affghan knitted by an old lady ninety-four 

 years of age, Mrs. Matilda Barker of West Boxford, would 

 have received a gratuity had it been entered according to rules ; 



