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- ↑ Charles K. Bolton (February 1907), "Circulating Libraries in Boston, 1765-1865", Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 11, hdl:2027/mdp.39015013248599
- ↑ Catalogue of Pelham's Circulating Library, no. 5 School-Street. Removed from no. 59 Cornhill, Boston: Munroe & Francis, printers, November 1804
- ↑ "Union Circulating Library", Columbian Centinel, April 27, 1811. Cited in: William Arms Fisher (1918), Notes on music in old Boston, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company
- ↑ Monthly Anthology, April 1808, p. 228
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- ↑ "Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, containing Boston births from A.D. 1700 to 1800", Records relating to the early history of Boston, Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 24, p. 354, 1894
