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Henry David Thoreau meets Cotton Mather at the Antiquarian Society

August 10th, 2010, by Elizabeth Watts Pope

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The following post comes to us from AAS reader Peter MacInerney. Early in January 1855, a Concord-based free-lance writer, occasional surveyor, and sometime lecturer, visited the American Antiquarian Society at its then-new building.  This second Antiquarian Hall had been completed little more than one year before, after the Society outgrew its original building. The visitor [...]