Excerpt from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society The medallion portrait of Mr; everett, inserted in this volume, was issued in the Everett Memorial volume published by the city of Boston. An engraving from the' unfinished picture by Stuart, painted When Mr. Everett was a young man, and now hanging in the Dowse Library, was published in the volume of the Society's Proceedings for 1855 - 1858. 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.