Leslie Perrin Wilson

Descriptive bibliography of the remainder of a gift of books made by Elizabeth Peabody to the Concord Free Public Library (1878-1879); a substantial number of the vols. listed bear evidence of having been part of Miss Peabody's Foreign Library in Boston.

Piece concerns turnpikes in 18th century New England, and the building of the Union Turnpike, completed in 1808 by the Union Turnpike Corporation. The corporation, formed in 1804, was responsible to build a turnpike [a predecessor of Mass. Highway 2] from Concord to Leominster, connecting the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike, and the 5th Mass. Turnpike. Elm Street in Concord, Mass. (named officially in 1854) was part of the Union Turnpike.

Piece concerns the location and selection process for the United Nations facility; one of the location choices being Concord, Mass.

Piece concerns the elm--known as the Whipping Post Elm, Town House Elm, or Jones Elm--that stood in Monument Square, Concord, Mass., until 1941.

Harriet Hanson Robinson lived with her husband William Steven Robinson in Concord from 1844 to 1857. She published a memoir of her husband with title: "Warrington" pen-portraits in 1877. In her diary she described her feelings about living in Concord, and commented about the town as being "dull," "narrow," "snobbish," etc.

Piece is about the 150th anniversary celebration of the Concord Fight, held in Concord in April 1925 and the controversy surrounding the failure of Robert Frost to deliver the literary address at the festivities.