103641 US12543.1A HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1881. Sept. 9, The Serilty. UNIVERSITY PRESS: PREFATORY NOTE. THE Committee for publishing the Proceedings of the MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY present in this volume the record of the meetings of the Society from April, 1880, to June, 1881, inclusive. Agreeably to the Society's custom, the stated meetings for July and August were dispensed with in each year. This volume contains then the record of thirteen meetings, embracing, among other interesting and valuable communications, the relation of the Sagadahoc colony, being a transcript of a manuscript used in an abridged form by Strachey, in his "Historie of Travaile," with preface and notes by Mr. De Costa, offered to the Society through Mr. Deane; Professor Young's paper on the subjects of the orations for the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard College, from 1655 to 1791; Mr. Emerson's essay on Thomas Carlyle; Dr. Ellis's remarks on the poem "The King's Missive," with his and Mr. Whittier's letters on the same; Mr. Ames's account of the part taken by Massachusetts in the expedition against Carthagena under Admiral Vernon; and the President, Mr. Winthrop's paper on the portrait of John Hampden at Washington. The volume contains also memoirs of thirteen deceased Resident Members;- that of the Hon. John G. King, by William P. Upham; of the Hon. John A. Andrew, by Peleg W. Chandler; of Mr. Lemuel Shattuck, by Charles Hudson; of the Hon. Thomas G. Cary, by J. Elliot Cabot; of Joseph E. Worcester, LL.D., by Dr. William Newell; of the Rev. |