Excerpt from John Pintard, Founder of the New York Historical Society: An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, December 3, 1901
Noblest citizens. To mention a single instance, I may be permitted to name my friend Robert C. Winthrop, who was so long the honored President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and whose successor, Charles Francis Adams, SO acceptably occupied this platform a fortnight ago.
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