[Minutes of the Executive Committee of the New-York Historical Society, 1880-1884], page 162, minutes of February 21, 1882 (continued)

Includes consideration of a letter from Gregory B. Keen of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania requesting the Society join in an appeal to the U.S. Congress to purchase a collection relating to Benjamin Franklin, including the records of the American legation to France of 1776-1785, from Henry Stevens of London; consideration of request from Justice Winsor to have photographs made of pictures in the gallery; and approval granted to read the Society's memorial to Stephen Whitney Phoenix before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.