Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Senate finance committee today unanimously agreed to report favorably upon the nomination of David A. Stewart, to be collector of internal revenue for the 4th collection district of Missouri...
Wednesday evening Captain John Codman delivered a very interesting and witty lecture, in Sever 11, upon the "Iniquity of Protective Tariff," before an appreciative audience. President Eliot and Deputy Collector Fiske of the Custom House were present. The lecturer opened by saying that commerce, though bound down by chains, has done more than either science or literature for the progress of humanity. Having established our rights to think and worship, we now want liberty to trade. What would you say if Congress passed laws compelling ministers to use a certain form of argument? Yet law compels you to trade...
...Senate committee reported favorably on the nomination of Worthington to be collector of the port of Boston...
...collection of books, and for some of them obtained excellent prices. Among the choice things in the sale were the first four folio editions of Shakespeare, the fourth edition being in fine condition, but the others had had their titles mended, and were otherwise not so perfect as a collector would be glad to see them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition (Rome, 1470), $135; the first edition of Homer...
...century, and today there are more twenty-five-year-old disciples of Carlyle, Hegel and Emerson, more short-haired women and long-haired men, more specimens of "Lange Haare und kurze Gedanke," as a German contemporary puts it, in Boston and vicinity than would satisfy the most ambitious autograph collector...