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__NOTOC__ The Salem Social Library (1760-1810) or Social Library in Salem was a proprietary library in Salem, Massachusetts. "Twenty-eight gentlemen ... subscribed 165 guineas. ... A Boston minister, (Condy ),〔James Raven. London booksellers and American customers: transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2002〕 was employed to buy the books in London and the library opened in a brick schoolhouse May 20, 1761, with 415 volumes including gifts given by members. The revolution was a bitter blow to many of the gentlemen who had founded the library. Many of the proprietors fled to England. ... In 1784 the library made a new start in new quarters in the new ... schoolhouse. Here they remained about 15 years, the schoolmaster acting as librarian."〔Library Journal, April 1910〕 "In 1797 they became incorporated;"〔Library Journal, April 1910〕 Edward Augustus Holyoke, Jacob Ashton, Joseph Hiller, and Edward Pulling served as signatories.〔An Act for incorporating certain Persons by the Name of The Proprietors of the Social Library in Salem, February 7, 1797. (Private and special statutes of the commonwealth of Massachusetts ), Volume 2. Printed for the state, by Manning & Loring, 1805〕 "There were over 40 proprietors when in 1810 the library was turned over to the () Athenaeum."〔Library Journal, April 1910〕 ==Subscribers== * Samuel Barnard〔H. Wheatland. Sketch of the Social and Philosophical Libraries. (Proceedings of the Essex Institute ), 1857〕 * Thomas Barnard〔 * Samuel Barton Jr.〔 * Joseph Blaney〔 * Joseph Bowditch〔 * William Browne〔 * Francis Cabot〔 * Joseph Cabot〔 * S. Curwen〔 * Richard Derby〔 * William Eppes〔 * Samuel Gardner〔 * Samuel Gardner Jr.〔 * Stephen Higginson〔 * E.A. Holyoke〔 * William Jeffry〔 * Daniel King〔 * John Nutting Jr.〔 * A. Oliver Jr.〔 * Timothy Orne〔 * Benjamin Pickman〔 * Benjamin Pickman Jr.〔 * Ebenezer Putnam〔 * William Pynchon〔 * Nathaniel Ropes〔 * William Vans〔 * W. Walter〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salem Social Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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