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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Distinguished guests and residents of Medford . (search)
Letter to the Editor.
West Medford, December 2, 1912. Editor of the Register:—
Some six years ago, while searching among the ancient files in Harvard College Library for other information, I came across a map or plan of land near Medford Square that interested me. Procuring a sheet of tracing paper I made a copy of the same.
I learned that it was the graduation thesis of a Medford boy, who afterward studied medicine with Dr. Brooks, and who succeeded to the latter's practice when he was elected governor.
A little later a friend, Frank V. Smith, artist and book illustrator, reproduced the same for me on Bristol board, and his work is practically a fac-similie of the original.
I am turning it over to the Historical Society, as being of interest and a record of the locality of over a century ago.
The quaint letters of the long S script made by the young collegian are as accurate as I could trace them.
The modern lettering of the title is the hand of the artist, who fo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., A Medford guide-post. (search)