Historical Societies in the United States (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Historical Societies in the United States Society, that its object was to collect, preserve, and communicate materials for a complete history of the country. No limitation of aims was made in behalf of the State, or of New England. Later, in 1804, the New York Historical, and, in 1823, the New Hampshire Historical Societies were organized, each for the purpose of discovering, procuring, and preserving whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical history of the United States, and of this State in particular. Societies formed at a later period, in defining their object, either give the State precedence of the United States, or omit the United States entirely. Thus the Historical Society of Pennsylvania declares its single object to be the elucidation of the civil and literary history of the State. We think, therefore, notwithstanding the more comprehensive schemes set forth by the earlier societies, that it has come to be their object generally, to collect the materials for the history of the State, county, or town where the society is situated, and then, as circumstances may favor, of the United States and the individual States. The principal means employed for accomplishing the object aimed at have been the establishment of libraries, the collection of manuscripts, the forming of museums of historical memorials and of the natural history of the region, and the printing of historical documents. Their purpose has been to collect and to render accessible to the public the materials for history, but not to write history under the sanction of the societies. The libraries formed by these societies, for the use of their members and all other accredited persons, are alone a fair evidence of their earnestness, when we consider that the works collected in them relate chiefly to American history. The number of volumes known to be contained in them amounts, as far as can be gathered from the reports received, to more than 482, 000, and more than 568, 000 pamphlets. The books are solely for reference. Additions are continually made, but with no purpose of building up a large library, unless it should consist of historical works. In some towns and cities, however, the library, for purposes of convenience, is also made miscellaneous in its character for more general uses. The zeal of the members in securing and preserving historical manuscript Is sufficiently illustrated by the fact that the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected a thousand volumes of such manuscripts; and the New York Historical Society counts 15, 000 single manuscripts; while the number possessed by all the societies is reported at 88, 771, besides 1, 361 bound volumes. These manuscripts relate to every period since the founding of the colonies. Paring many years the apartments of these two societies, of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, Mass., and of one or two other societies, were the only places that offered for the especial and safe deposit of manuscripts, the State libraries not having been generally organized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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