Statistics for occurrence #1 of “John Pickering” in chapter 5, page 86 of Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1:

...reying upon me. . . . One little feat I did, which I now tell in the fulness of friendship rather than vanity. The Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,—D. Webster, President, John Pickering , V. P.,—offered a premium in books to the author (a minor) of the best dissertation on any thing relating to commerce, trade, and manufactures, to be handed up Jan. 1. It popped into your fri...
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