December Meeting, 1943

    A STATED Meeting of the Society was held at the Club of Odd Volumes, No. 77 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, on Thursday, December 16, 1943, at three o’clock in the afternoon, the President, Kenneth Ballard Murdock, in the chair.

    The records of the Annual Meeting in November were read and approved.

    Mr. Henry Morse Channing, of Sherborn, Mr. Roger Ernst, of Boston, and Mr. Mayo Adams Shattuck, of Hingham, were elected Resident Members of the Society.

    The Recording Secretary read a letter from Mr. W. R. Woodbury, City Manager of the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, thanking Mr. George Frederick Robinson and the Society for the subscription list, dated July 15, 1773, for the establishment of a school in Williamsburg, stating that it would be presented to the Mayor and Aldermen at their next meeting.

    Mr. Lawrence Shaw Mayo read a paper entitled “Professor John Winthrop.”