The Public Library of the city of Boston : a history . ontreal, Quebec, Baltimore, and other cities,everywhere appealing especially to young men ofliterary tastes, and finally coming to Boston in thespring of 1841. Here, as elsewhere, he succeededin securing attention. He found here various locallibraries, controlled by private associations, and hethought it possible to unite them in one institutionupon a much broader basis. On Saturday evening,April 24, a public meeting was held at the rooms ofthe Mercantile Library Association, for the purposeof considering his plan. At this meeting, SamuelE
The Public Library of the city of Boston : a history . ontreal, Quebec, Baltimore, and other cities,everywhere appealing especially to young men ofliterary tastes, and finally coming to Boston in thespring of 1841. Here, as elsewhere, he succeededin securing attention. He found here various locallibraries, controlled by private associations, and hethought it possible to unite them in one institutionupon a much broader basis. On Saturday evening,April 24, a public meeting was held at the rooms ofthe Mercantile Library Association, for the purposeof considering his plan. At this meeting, SamuelE. Sawyer presided, and Allen Shepard was ap-pointed secretary. Vattemare explained his systemfully, and afterward the following resolutions wereunanimously adopted: Resolved, That we have listened with great delightto Mr. Vattemares plan of forming a great public Literaryand Scientific Institution in this city, by uniting our variousLibraries and collections in science and the Fine Arts; andwe think such an Institution would benefit the great body of. A. Watson & , >v^^i^.Z^^«^ THE CITY OF BOSTON the people, by opening to all the treasures of Science, Litera-ture and Art, by breaking down the factitious distinctionswhich separate class from class, by disseminating knowledgeand taste through every portion of our population, and bythe influence it would have in the promotion of universaleducation. Resolved, That we regard the system of NationalInterchange suggested by Mr. Vattemare, as one which willtend to remove national and sectional prejudices, will pro-mote the great cause of peace, and the first principle ofreligion, by uniting all nations in intellectual brotherhood;as one which by making each state and nation a participantin the others productions, will bring about a kind of mentalcommerce which cannot fail to promote universal civiliza-tion ; and we think that the glorious success which has so farattended Mr. Vattemares labors in this department of hisc
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