DEDICATORY SERVICES

OF

MEMORIAL LIBRARY

BUILDING

AND

SOLDIERS' TABLETS.

ACTON, MASS., MAY 24, 1890

WITH ADDRESSES BY HON. JOHN D. LONG AND OTHERS

DEDICATORY SERVICES

OF

MEMORIAL LIBRARY

BUILDING

AND

SOLDIERS' TABLETS

ACTON, MASS., MAY 24, 1890

WITH ADDRESSES BY HON. JOHN D. LONG AND OTHERS

THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION FROM WM. A. WILDE то THE SELECTMEN OF ACTON PRESENTING THE "MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND THE GROUNDS ON WHICH IT STANDS, TOGETHER WITH THE BOOKS THEREIN, WAS FORWARDED

To the Selectmen of Acton :

FEB. 27, 1890.

Gentlemen: For a long time past it has been my intention, if ever I was able to do so, to remember my native town by the gift of some memorial to the memory of those brave and patriotic men of Acton, who so freely gave time, strength, and health, and many of them their very lives, in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. To carry out this plan, in what seemed to me the most advantageous and permanent method possible, I have purchased the estate of Rev. James Fletcher, adjacent to the townhouse, and erected thereon a Memorial Library, placing upon its shelves some four thousand volumes more or less, and I beg the privilege of presenting this property to the town as a free gift, only stipulating that it shall be kept forever as a Memorial Library, and free to all the citizens of the patriotic old town of Acton, which I shall always love and be proud of.

If it shall please the town to accept this gift, I shall be pleased to pass all necessary papers for the transfer of the property, to whom, and at such time, as the town shall direct. I am, gentlemen,

Yours truly,

WILLIAM A. WILDE.