The Massachusetts Historical Society -- strongly impressed with the importance of the great struggle, in which the nation is now engaged, to the cause of constitutional government and the history of America...
Publisher: The Society
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Causes; Sources; Collectors and collecting; Massachusetts Historical Society
Other titles: [Circular asking for a contribution of books ... ]
Notes: Announcement of the formation of a committee to collect "books, pamphlets, newspapers, proclamations, handbills, engravings, maps, plans, portraits, envelopes, letters, and manuscripts, which may illustrate the causes, origin, and progress of the existing war."

Dated: "Boston, 8th August, 1861."