Boston, September 17, 1830.
Charles Sprague, Esq.
The Undersigned, the Committee of Arrangements for the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Boston, have the honor to enclose you an attested copy of a vote of the City Council, and respectfully ask your compliance with the request contained therein.
Harrison Gray Otis,
Benjamin Russell,
Winslow Lewis,
Benjamin T. Pickman,
Thomas Minns,
Joseph Eveleth,
John W. James,
John P. Bigelow,
Washington P. Gragg.
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ODE.
I.
Not to the Pagan’s mount I turn,
For inspiration now;
Olympus and its gods I spurn—