[99] Allibone, ii. 2248; Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 875; Bibliotheca Historica (1870), no. 1,974.
[100] Allibone, ii. 2248; Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 878.
[101] It was first published, less perfectly, in the American Journal of Science, vol. xcviii. p. 299; and of the separate issue seventy-five copies only were printed. Bibliotheca Historica (1870), no. 1,976. It was also issued as a part of a volume on the proposed Tehuantepec Railway, prepared by his brother, Simon Stevens, and published by the Appletons of New York the same year. Ibid. no. 1,977; Historical Collections, vol. i. nos. 894-895; Allibone, vol. ii. p. 2348, nos. 17, 18, 19.
[102] Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 897.
[103] It is a droll fancy of his to call his bookshop the “Nuggetory;” to append to his name “G. M. B.,” for Green Mountain Boy; and even to parade in a similar titular fashion his rejection at a London Club,—“Bk-bld—Ath.-Cl.”
[104] Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 898.
[105] Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 899.
[106] The public is largely indebted to the efforts of Mr. Theodore F. Dwight, the librarian and keeper of the Archives of the Department of State at Washington, for the ultimate success of the endeavor to secure these manuscripts to the nation. Mr. Stevens had lately (1885) formed a copartnership with his son, Mr. Henry N. Stevens, and had begun a new series of Catalogues, of which No. 1 gives his own publications, and No. 2 is a bibliography of New Hampshire History. He died in London, February 28, 1886.
[107] N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1863, p. 203. Dr. Homes, of Albany, is confident Joseph Bumstead was earlier in Boston than Mr. Drake. The Boston Directory represents him as a printer in 1800, and as a bookseller after 1816.
[108] His earliest catalogue appeared in 1842, as of his private library. Sabin’s Bibl. of Bibl., p. xlix. A collection announced for sale in Boston in 1845 was withdrawn after the catalogue was printed, having been sold to the Connecticut Historical Society for $4,000. At one time he amassed a large collection of American school-books to illustrate our educational history. They were bought (about four hundred in all) by the British Museum.