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The Prince Society, or Prince Society for Mutual Publication, (1858-1944) in
Boston
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, published "rare works, in print or manuscript, relating to America." 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." 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. It operated from offices in Bromfield Street (ca.1868) and Somerset Street (ca.1872, 1908). 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.
[Wolkins. 1936-1941; p.254]
References
Further reading
Publications of the society
* New England's Prospect (1865) by William Wood.
* The Hutchinson Papers (1865) William H. Whitmore, ed.
* John Duton's Letters from New England (1867) William H. Whitmore, ed.
* Sir William Alexander and American Colonization (1863) William H. Whitmore, ed.
* The Andros Tracts (1874) William H. Whitmore, ed.
* John Wheelwright (1876) by Charles H. Bell
* Voyages of the Northmen to America (1877) by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter
* The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (1880, 1878, and 1882) by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter
* The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton (1883) by Charles Francis Adams
* Sir Walter Ralegh and His Colony in America (1884) by the Rev. Increase N. Tarbox
* Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson (1885) by Gideon D. Scull
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* 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
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