. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and , gave$50(10 toward it; Mr. Bigelow gave $luOO;Mr. Everett and Mr. Winthrop, large dona-tions of books; Mr. Joshua Bates, of Lon-don, $50,000, besides several thousand vol-umes ; Mr. Jonathan Phillips, $10,000 ; andothers, smaller sums. The building, erectedat a cost of $363,000 by the city of Boston,is one of the finest library rooms in theworld. The present number of volumes is alittle more than 100,000, and is increasingat the rate of 8000 volumes per the present year (1861) also, it will.

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