New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Rare Old Relics
40 Commemorate
Pill ggrins' Landing 6, 9
Boston Public Library Dis
plays Great Collection of
Books and Prints Dating
From Sixteenth Century

Countless valuable books and prints
dating from the days of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, have beer
officially placed on exhibition in the
Boston Public Library as "Pilgrim
Iercentenarv" to commemorate the
landing of the Pilgrims. 1t is in
charge of Otto Fleischner.
Mr.. Fleischner has gone back even to
the time before the Pilgrims landed
and has in the collection maps and
books dating from the time when the
French in the late 15O0's pressed in
through Canada, but did not stay.
lie mas secured large collection of
the books, printed in quaint English,
showing the religious views obtaining
IN those days, and the religious diff
ferences, often acute, that persisted
between the Pilgrims and the Puri-
tans. lie has quantity of original
editions showing the history of the
Puritan and Separatist movements. and
another larger set of absolute comics
of the literature that was issued. each
denying the others.
One of the brightest spots in Mr..
Flelschner's collections are rooms full
of ancient and modern pictures, the
ancient showing the buildings, maps of
English towns and of the original
towns IN America, built by people who
crossed on the Mayfower and later
ships.
There are shown quantities of VOL
umes, always in quaint English. that
portray the history of Congregation
alsm, and he has dozens of volumes
that depict the early sources of New
England history, the settlement Of Ply-
mouth and Boston, the Indian wars. the
evangelization of the Indians, the ar
rival Of the Quakers and their original
blgotry, and volumes about the historic
Salem witchcraft.
There are many crude maps that
nevertheless are said to be accurate to
a degree, which show the harbor of
plymouth, and with the odd names that,
with the passage of time. have been
altered to the names known now.
A special feature of Mr.. Fleischner's
collection Is series of pictures Of
Amsterdam and Leyden, three hundred
years and more ago, where the Pill
grims went at first from England.
Then there are more modern views
of Boston, Scrooby, Austerfield. Plvm-
outh, Cambridge, more modern but still
decades and sometimes centuries old
A particularly good portion of the COL
lection are the portraits of Pilgrim
subjects and English sovereigns and
King Henry VIII is hanging from
various walls, his face twisted into
contortions, mute evidence Of one of
the reasons why the PILGRIMS left Eng
land.
Standish Letter Shown
Another section of the collection con-
slsts of facsimiles of autograph let-
ters and documents. They include "A
plymouth Colony Letter" that is
signed by Myles Standish, William
bradford, John Alden, William Brad
ford Gouer (Governor), Tho Prence and
Samuel Fuller. civ
Another letter entitled "a Plymouth
Colony Letter" is signed bv .sWilln,
Brewster" and "Iohn Reyner" Both
documents are printed in kind Of
English hardly interpretable TO-DAY
me letter signed by Myles Standish.
for instance, begins:
Gentlemen, and Worthyly beloued
trends. We haue now at length re-
turned an Answer to your letter dated
the .26. OF July (the reason we haue so
lCnge deferred the same, is because we
haue had no courte till the last month
beng Januarie). The sumo thereof is
this, that we are willing to CORRESPONDS
with you in this, or any other neborlv
course, so fare as no way be preju
dac'al to any, or swarue from the rules
OF equitie. How fare mr. Wilson OK
presto that agreement you intimate we
know not (seeing he is absente) but
our meaning, G. former practiss, was &
match been, only of such as come to
dwell, d. lnhabite, Whesher as SERVANTS