Prince Society
The Prince Society or Prince Society for Mutual Publication (1858-1944) in Boston, Massachusetts, published "rare works, in print or manuscript, relating to America."[1] It was named after Thomas Prince, fifth pastor of Old South Church in Boston. Historian Samuel Gardner Drake founded the society because he "had not been made a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and he resented it."[2] Officials of the Prince Society included William Sumner Appleton, John Ward Dean, Charles E. Goodspeed, Edmund F. Slafter, John Wingate Thornton, and William Henry Whitmore.[3] It operated from offices in Bromfield Street (ca.1868)[4] and Somerset Street (ca.1872, 1908).[5][6] Around 1920 society members "realized at last that a publication society 'on the mutual principle' had become an anomaly in this day and generation." The society continued for several "years of poise before the final leap into the abyss" in 1944.[7]
References
- ↑ "Prince Society. Constitution", Publications of the Prince Society 20, 1890
- ↑ Wolkins. 1936-1941; p.230
- ↑ Prince Society records, 1858-1944, Massachusetts Historical Society, OCLC 23825570
- ↑ Boston Directory. 1868.
- ↑ American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 13250
- ↑ Wolkins. 1936-1941
- ↑ Wolkins. 1936-1941; p.254
Further reading
Publications of the society
- John Wheelwright (1876) by Bell
- Voyages of the Northmen to America (1877) by Slafter
- The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (1880, 1878, and 1882) by Slafter
- The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton (1883) by Charles Francis Adams
- Sir Walter Ralegh and His Colony in America (1884) by Increase N. Tarbox
- Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson (1885) by Gideon D. Scull
- James P. Baxter (1890), Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine
- Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1894) by Adams
- John Checkley, or the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay (1897) by Slafter
- Edward Randolph, five volumes (1898-1899) by Robert N. Toppan and Alfred T. S. Goodrick
- Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America (1903) by Carlos Slafter
About the society
- George G. Wolkins (Oct., 1936 - May, 1941), "The Prince Society", Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series 66: 223–254 Check date values in:
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