LET it not be thought that we are working for ourselves alone, nor for those only who are now living; but let us remember that thousands yet unborn will bless the pious hands that rescued from oblivion or destruction our precious records. Nor is it to New England only that we devote our labor and our efforts. The star of empire has risen in the western sky, and its trail of light streams across the continent, touching the rock of Plymouth upon the Atlantic coast. Hon. William Whiting, LL.D. CONTENTS. Addresses and Resolutions on presenting the Portraits of the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Col. Almon D. Hodges, the Hon. George B. Upton and Col. Albert H. Hoyt Presentation of Autograph Letters, viz., of George Washington by Rear- Adm. Henry Knox Thatcher, U.S.N., and of Benedict Arnold by Report of the Committee on the Preservation of Revolutionary Documents Page |