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Sir-- At a meeting of citizens called in this city, a few months since, to consider the practicability and expediency of establishing a National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the undersigned were appointed a committee to mature a constitution, and to make report of the same, at a subsequent meeting. ...A meeting will be held on Monday evening, October 17th, at 7 o'clock in Clinton Hall, when a report of the proceedings of the committee will be presented...and a society organized. ...New-York, Oct. 14, 1836

Identifier(s)

text:1758; APSimg6397; Goodman Number: 36; 973 C683 No. 698

Description

Typed invitation to meet and form an organization: the National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Signed in type by William A. Duer, Gorham D. Abbot, Peter G. Stuyvesant, John Knox, Samuel Ward, Henry Cary, William Bard, John Proudfit, and John T. Gilchrist.

Creator

National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Source

Broadsides Collection (973 C683);

Subject

Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations

Date

1836