The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of MrRobert BThomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter . uary: — In presenting to our friends the Fifty-fifth Number of theAlmanac, our pleasure is saddened by deep and heartfelt re-gret, at having to announce the death of the senior editor ofthe work, whose name it bears. He died May 19th, 1846, aged80, after a long and useful life, beloved and respec
The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of MrRobert BThomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter . uary: — In presenting to our friends the Fifty-fifth Number of theAlmanac, our pleasure is saddened by deep and heartfelt re-gret, at having to announce the death of the senior editor ofthe work, whose name it bears. He died May 19th, 1846, aged80, after a long and useful life, beloved and respected by all whoknew him, in deed and in truth, that noblest work of God, anhonest man. We feel that it is due to him, that this testimonyto the purity of his character should be recorded here. He wasa man of strong practical good sense, kind of heart and openof hand, virtuous, upright, and scrupulously honorable in all hisdealings. 1 Dr. Samuel A. Green, in the Almanac for 1892, the hundredth number. i6 THE OLD FARMERS ALMANACK The house in which Mr. Thomas lived for many yearshas lately been removed in clearing the ground for thegreat Reservoir of the Metropolitan System of A small portrait of Mr. Thomas — a woodcut — ap-peared in the Almanac for 1837, with a characteristic. Robert Bailey Thomas(From the Farmers Almanack for 1S38) note : — In justice to myself, I ought to state that my like-ness is inserted . . at the special desire of my cut is repeated in 1838. There is a full-length por-trait, painted by an unknown artist,2 in the hall of theAmerican Antiquarian Society at Worcester, and this is re-produced in the hundredth number of the Almanac (1892), 1 See New York Observer, May 11, 1S99; Worcester Evening Gazette,May 23, 1899. 2 Sometimes ascribed to one Talcott: see Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc, NewSeries, VII, 357. THE MAN AND HIS BOOK IJ to accompany a brief biography by Dr. Samuel AbbottGreen. Both likenesses are given in the present vo
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