Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . Fortunately, alittle more than two years before, he was pre-vailed upon to sit for his portrait and Custer,a Boston artist, succeeded in throwing uponcanvass an almost perfect semblance of thiseminent scholar and this now looks downfrom the walls upon the scenes of his manifoldservices to history. Mr. Barton, who hadlong been Mr. Havens assistant and who isnow in control of the collection, is Worcesterborn and bred, a son of the late Judge Ira From his many years of acquaint-ance, he knows his books perfectly and it isamazing w
Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . Fortunately, alittle more than two years before, he was pre-vailed upon to sit for his portrait and Custer,a Boston artist, succeeded in throwing uponcanvass an almost perfect semblance of thiseminent scholar and this now looks downfrom the walls upon the scenes of his manifoldservices to history. Mr. Barton, who hadlong been Mr. Havens assistant and who isnow in control of the collection, is Worcesterborn and bred, a son of the late Judge Ira From his many years of acquaint-ance, he knows his books perfectly and it isamazing with what ease he finds any bookthat the library possesses. In a case in this room are about sixty booksfrom the celebrated bindery of Bedford, themost of them from the famous Brinley collec-tion to which the Society fell heir to the ex-tent of five thousand dollars. Probably nocollection of books, by the Mathers, is socomplete as this, each little book in its unique-ness and splendor of binding representingalmost a fortune and making the mouth of the. genial and ready to talk about the treasuresunder his care ; but those of us who have vis-ited this room in years that are gone, will in-stinctively look over that great desk, with itsrevolving top, which once stood in the middleof the room, for that venerable form which forso many years sat behind it and from his chairgave kindly greeting to all seeking his counseland advice; and they were many who cameasking information from Samuel Foster Hav-en, for nearly fifty years the we pause to tell all the good qualitiesof this gentleman we should write nothingmore, for his virtues were legion, his accom-plishments many, and his kindness obligations that many were under forassistance can, perhaps, be expressed in nobetter manner than in quoting from PalfreysPreface to his History of New Englandwhen he says, To no one am I indebted formore light than to that eminent archsologist,Samuel Foster Haven of Worces
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