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erous donor bestowed upon the town as a free public 

 library. As modest as he W 7 as generous, he forbade its 

 being called after his own name ; and so it is known only 

 as the "Public Library of Ipswich." The use is open to 

 all the inhabitants of Ipswich on very simple conditions. ' 



Mr. Heard put in the building a library of thirty-five 

 hundred volumes of well selected, standard works. To 

 this number his heirs added after his death twenty-five 

 hundred volumes, which, with about thirteen hundred 

 volumes bestowed by another donor, make seven thou- 

 sand, three hundred volumes, constituting the present 

 library. 



The only lack in this donation was the means of in- 

 creasing the library and of replacing the books worn out, 

 but this deficiency has been recently supplied by another 

 son of Ipswich, Prof. Daniel Tread well,* of Harvard 

 University. Prof. Treadwell had long contemplated the 

 erection of a public library in Ipswich, and had made a 

 will to that effect, when he found himself anticipated by 

 his friend, Mr. Heard. Accordingly he altered it and 

 made his donations to the Heard library. By his death 

 in 1872 the trustees f have come into the possession of 

 funds amounting to about ten thousand dollars, which will 

 eventually be raised by residuary legacies to nearly twenty 

 thousand. In addition to this Prof. Treadwell bequeathed 

 his library of about thirteen hundred volumes, a number 

 of valuable oil paintings, copies of the old masters, vari- 

 ous medals bestowed upon him for mechanical inventions, 

 coins and models and all his manuscripts, to the library. 



* Daniel Treadwell was born at Ipswich in 1791. Rumford Professor and lec- 

 turer on the application of the sciences to the useful arts in Harvard University, 

 from 1834 to 1845. Died at Cambridge, Feb. 27, 1872. 



1 The Trustees of the Treadwell fund are the Trustees of the Public Library, the 

 pastor of the First Church and the master of the Grammar School, Ipswich. The 

 latter two, at present, arc Rev. Thomas Morong and Issachar Lefavoui-. 



