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Excerpt from Massachusetts Historical Society: May-June, 1912Some Of the papers were in Portland, Maine, some in the Boston Athenaeum and some in the Knox Mansion at Thomas ton. These last, five boxes of manuscripts and newspapers, were shipped in August, 1856, on an old and crazy schooner of ninety tons, the Henry Clay, bound from Bangor, Maine, to Roxbury, Massachusetts, with a cargo of lumber. She met a heavy gale on August 19, sprung a leak which could not be met by the pumps, and the gale continuing, she became a total wreck, the deck separating from the hull. The crew saved nothing' but what they stood in, SO ran the newspaper account.1 Mr. Willard, at the time in the White Mountains, was naturally anxious for the safety of the papers, but a few days after reading the news of the wreck he received letters from home telling him the boxes were at his house and but little injured. How they were saved is not related in the letters, but his daughter, Miss Willard, now with us, remembers handling the papers in their wet condition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.