The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 51, December 4, 2005, Article 13

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ONLINE CATALOG

Anne E. Bentley, Curator of Art, Massachusetts Historical
Society writes: "This is in reply to Dave Perkins
who has discovered our online catalog...eventually
we hope to have everything in our collection described
online, including numismatics, but that section of
the holdings is far in the future. Until then, I'm
afraid, researchers will have to contact me directly
to find out if we have what they're looking for and
to make arrangements to consult the collection.

I would like to tell him that I have Chester Harding's
copy of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Gov. Caleb Strong
hanging above my desk, and he's welcome to come see
that if he pleases.  Gov. Strong was elected a member
of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1800 and
remained active in the Society until his death in 1819.
As was customary, his "memoir" appeared in our official
transactions: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical
Society (series I, vol. 1: pp. 290-316) written by
Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph.D. (1850-1924).  The printed
version of our Proceedings began in 1859. Volume I
for 1791-1835 wasn't published until 1879, which is
how Sen. Lodge came to write a "memoir" of a man who
died before Lodge was ever born..."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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