FOOTNOTES:
[A] In the February number of this magazine will be found an interesting article upon Abbott Academy, and in following numbers articles, now in course of preparation, will be published upon the Theological Seminary and Phillips Academy.
[B] The history of the town has been carefully written by Miss Sarah Loring Bailey, and her volume of “Historical Sketches of Andover” is very valuable.
[C] Phillips Brooks.
[D] Historical Sketches, p. 145.
[E] Sketches of Andover, pp. 402-3.
[F] Prof. E. G. Coy, New Englander, July, 1885.
[G] “Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.”
[H] Edmund Burke had previously warned the British Parliament against the futile attempt to tax the American colonies, and had said, “You will never get a shilling from them.”
[I] Tudor and Bowen hold that these letters, which are found in the Massachusetts State Paper Collection, are from the pen of Otis. Bancroft gives strong reasons for believing Samuel Adams to be their author.