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Excerpt from Dedication of the Building of the New Hampshire Historical Society: The Gift of Edward Tuck Among the thirty one original members were citizens already distinguished in various walks Of life and many more upon Whom the highest of public favors were later to be bestowed. Representative men indeed, were those whose love of State and interest in historical subjects caused them to found this Society. Concord, as the capital of the State, was selected as the home of the new organization. The early records of the Society were very brief, but it is clear that the annual meetings were regularly held. Before many years had passed the modest beginnings in the way of a library had so increased that more space within which to arrange the manuscripts and books became urgent. An appeal to the Legislature having been favorably received, a small committee room on the third oor of the State House was assigned to the young society for library purposes. A few years later the books and pamphlets had become so numer ous and additions were swelling the total so rapidly that before long another change to more commodious quarters became necessary. It was at this turn of affairs that William Plumer, a former Governor of New Hampshire and the first President of the Society, with interested friends, presented a petition to the Legislature asking that a fireproof building should be built by the State for the safe keeping of the valuable property of the Society, but to that appeal came no response. 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."