Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . dams was appointed to submit plans andestimates for a building. Yet since we werethen having one of our periodic bad times it was six years more before anything furtherwas done. Then, in 1847, Mayor Quincy(Josiah Quincy Jr.) interested himself in theproject and offered five thousand dollars towardsa public library on condition that ten thousanddollars additional for the same purpose shouldbe raised. M. Vattemare had meanwhile for-warded fifty valuable volumes which werebeing stored in the City
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . dams was appointed to submit plans andestimates for a building. Yet since we werethen having one of our periodic bad times it was six years more before anything furtherwas done. Then, in 1847, Mayor Quincy(Josiah Quincy Jr.) interested himself in theproject and offered five thousand dollars towardsa public library on condition that ten thousanddollars additional for the same purpose shouldbe raised. M. Vattemare had meanwhile for-warded fifty valuable volumes which werebeing stored in the City Hall, and these weresoon joined by gifts of books from EdwardEverett, Robert C. Winthrop, S. A. Eliot andothers, all of which were placed in the City Hallunder the care of Edward Capen. In August, 1850, Mayor Bigelow contributed$1000 towards the library fund, and EdwardEverett, persistently advising the erection ofa building, Joshua Bates, a native of Boston, —who afterwards became a prominent memberof the firm of Baring Brothers, — donated tothe city of his birth (in 1852) the handsome sura.
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