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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
p by Mr. Ticknor and Mr. Everett,—because he saw the importance to his native town of such a library as is there recommended. In his letter to Mr. Seaver, October 1, 1852, Mr. Bates says, he is impressed with the importance to rising and future generations of such a library as is recommended. Here, then, was the founding of a library, a gift of $50,000, with the condition annexed, that the city should erect a suitable building for the use of the institution. See vote of Trustees, October 18, 1864, in Memorial of Joshua Bates, pp. 14, 15. And now began the practical labors of organizing the scheme, collecting the books, and perfecting the details of a system as yet entirely new and untried. To follow Mr. Ticknor minutely and closely through all the steps of the development of this work would require more space than belongs to the subject here, but at certain points his influence and his exertions may be described. The whole was in harmony with his life-long purpose, to make h