Library History Miscellaneous: 1. Brief History of Wayland Library (About 5 versions of Brief history) – 2. Origin of the Free Public Library System of MA (James Heard, 1860) – 3. Copy of postcard (picture) (2 copies) 4. Library Trust Funds – 5. Report of the Library Committee (Wayland Town Report, 1886) – 6. Town Meetings Concerned with the Library (1848-1853?) – 7. List of dates & people involved in library beginning – 8. Historical sketches of Library – (James Draper, 1878) – 9. Library Building Chronology? (1848-1980) – 10. First Public Library Article – 11. The Common School Journal—Public Libraries (1865) – 12. Libraries in Boston (Justin Winsor) – 13. Town meetings concerned with library (1847-1853) – 14. The Community of Wayland and Its Library (John R. Muether. 1981) – 15. Wayland Free Public Library Proposed Addition (1974, 2 copies) – 16. The Library System (1867) – 17. Speech of the Rev. John Burt Wight at library celebration (1851) – 18. East Sudbury Charitable Library (John Burt Wright. 1815-1866?) – 19. East Sudbury Social Library (1796) – 20. First Card Catalog (1890) – 21. List of donors to library etc. (1848) – 22. Wayland Free Public Library (Library Notebook) – 23. Library Trustee records (1905) – 24. Reception for Francis Wayland (1851) – 25. Picture of the Library – 26. MA Library Aid Association By-Laws – 27. Report of Trustees of Public Library – 28. Town meeting (1898) – 29. Report of Library Building Committee (1898-1899, 2 copies) – 30. Report of Library Building Committee (1899-1990) – 31. Wayland Public Library (student paper by Jainine McCauley, 1974) – 32. Free Public Library Commission – 9th report (1899. 2 copies) – 33. Picture – 34. Etcetera—various copies of library doings – 35. Plan of Roby Estate set aside for Wayland Library (1899) – 36. Clipping describing Library dedication (Boston Globe, 1900) – 37. Paper on Library addition problems (Ann Flowers, 1983) – 38. Clipping describing WPA project to transcribe manuscripts – 39. Competitive plans for library building (1898-1899) – 40. Report of library building Committee (1900-1901) – 41. Newspaper article describing postponement of dedication of new library building (Boston Globe, 1900) – 42. Letters between David and Edwin Heard describing development of library – 43. Portraits in Library (Pre-1898, 1989 2 portraits added, Painting of Margarett Ulman) – 44. Source of granite for original building – 45. The Public Libraries of Mass (New England Magazine, 1891) – 46. Newspaper article from 30’s(?) describing history of Library. Mentions WPA project transcribing diaries, etc 47. J.S. Draper’s Plan of Wayland Library ( 2 copies) – 48. Library Committee Report (1866) – 49. Letters Concerning First Library in Wayland (1848-1849) – 50. Biographies of Library Founders (1. John Burt Wight, 2. James Draper, 3. Edward Mellen) – 51. Article on Wayland Library (Boston Evening Transcript, 1888) – 52. History of Cochituate Branch – 53. Librarians (Sarah Elizabeth Hawkes [Heard]) – 54. The Wayland Public Library (student paper, Janine McCaley, 1974) – 55-57. Miscellaneous History of the Wayland Free Public Library (1970s and 1980s) – 58. Roby deeds land to Town of Wayland for Library (1899) – 59. Francis Wayland's notes for Speech at Library Dedication (1850) – 60. Francis Wayland's Speech at Library Dedication (1850) – 61. Wayland Celebrates new rooms in Town Library (Natick Observer, 1848) – 62. note on Town Library (Natick Observer, 1961) – 63. Constitution of East Sudbury Social Library (1796) – 64. Roby deed [purchased from Drury] 1872 – 65. Francis Wayland letter to Edward Mellon (1848) – 66. Library Frieze in Round Room – 67. Order of Arrangements for the Reception of Francis Wayland (Draper, James Sumner, 1851) – 68. Library Founding Days: Notes by Kay Gardner-Westcott – 69. Anna Dudley insists Wayland Library is First (1926) – 70. (brief) Library Pictures: Founders, Librarians, Locations
