Note 2 — Chapter II
Reading edition
It is now in existence, and was kept in his library during his lifetime, and for many years afterwards. His library, at the time of his death, consisted of several thousand books, which, during his long life, he had collected. Yet, to my mind, the little Almanac is the most valuable book of the whole, because it was the first evidence he gave of his perseverance, and of the tendencies of his mind. It is now, with his other manuscripts, preserved in the Public Library of the City of Boston.
The manuscripts and his whole library were given to the city when the opening of Devonshire Street, in continuation of Winthrop and Otis Place, required the removal of the house where they had been preserved from the time of Mr. Bowditch’s death.