Memoranda. 



having lived, unmarrlod» in rooms 

 above his shop. He onee said to Mr, 

 Ticknor: "When I veas 28 years of 

 age, I had never had any means but 

 the wages of a journeyman leather 

 dresser, at $28 a month; I had never 

 paid $6 for travel anywhere, and 

 never worn a pair of boots, but I 

 possessed several hundred books, 

 well bound." 



This love of reading and collecting 

 books developed with his prosperity, 

 and before his death his library, 

 estimated as costing $40,000 — and 

 now worth many times that sum^ — 

 was conveyed to the MasHachusetts 

 HistOTical Society, making him at 

 that time its chief benefaetor, Hia 

 executors, autherlzed by his will to 

 distribute the residue of his estate 

 "for literary, sclentiflo and charita- 

 ble purposes,'' conveyed to the City 

 of Cambridge $10,000, on condition 

 that $600 a year should be paid 

 "every jaut forever, to pravldQ 

 at mm eonnwa ei loolaeM ti tha 



highest cliaraeter on literary and 

 scientLfio subjects.'* 



This foundation, established in 

 the golden age oi lyceum lectures, 

 attracted the mo6t notable speakersi 

 The names of Ralph Waldo Emer- 

 son, Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips 

 and many other personages of that 

 period, appear In the early list. 

 Prof. Ktttredge Is a worthy succes- 

 sor of theBe masters of public ad- 

 dress, and his hearer^, will listen 

 with unusual pleaBuro to his wise 

 and brilliant Interpretations. 



