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Salem, I thank you most heartily for your hospitality, 

 and I wish your city may prosper for many years to come 

 as it has prospered already. 



The President of the Massachusetts Senate, Hon. 

 GEORGE B. LORING, was next called upon, and made an 

 eloquent response, concluding with the sentiment : 



HAWTHORNE and KINGSLEY, the two men of thought, 

 culture and feeling whose duty and privilege it has been 

 to teach Englishmen and Americans that they are of one 

 nationality. 



Other interesting addresses were delivered by Vice 

 President F. W. Putnam, Rev. E. C. Bolles, Vice Pres- 

 ident A. C. Goodell, Jr., and Rev. E. S. Atwood, who 

 were successively called upon, and the company separated 

 at a seasonable hour, after an evening of great intellectual 

 and social enjoyment. 



After the reception the meeting was adjourned to Fri- 

 day evening, Feb. 27, at 7.30 o'clock. 



ADJOURNED MEETING, FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 1874. 



MEETING was held this evening, according to adjourn- 

 ment, at 7.30 o'clock. The PRESIDENT in the chair. 

 Records read. 



Henry J. Pratt, Abraham Towle, Nathan P. Cutler, 

 Anna C. Cutler, all of Salem, were elected resident 

 members. 



Stephen M. Allen, of Boston, was elected a corres- 

 ponding member. 



