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Mr. Peabo-
dy's first letter.
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under wholesome restraints to preserve good order
and decorous department, it may be rendered in-
structive to artists in the pursuit of their peculiar
studies and in affording them opportunity to make
drawings and copies from the works it may con-
tain. As annual or periodical Exhibitions of
Paintings and Statuary are calculated, in my
opinion, to afford equal gratification and instruc-
tion to the community, and may serve to supply a
valuable fund for the enrichment of the gallery,
I suggest to the trustees the establishment of such
exhibitions as far as they may find it practiable
from the resources within their reach.
Lastly — I desire that ample and convenient ac-
commodation may be made in the building of the
Institute for the use of the Maryland Historical
Society, of which I am and have long been a mem-
ber. It is my wish that that society should per-
manently occupy its appropriate rooms as soon as
they are provided, and should at the proper time
when this can be done, be appointed by the trus-
tees to be the guardian and protector of the pro-
Serty of the Institute; and that, if it accept this
duty and, in conformity with my wish, shall re-
move into and take possession of the apartments de-
signed for its use, it shall also be requested and
empowered to assume the management and ad-
ministration of the operations of the several de-
partments as the same shall be established and
organized by the Trustees. That it shall, at a
proper time in every year appoint from its own
members appropriate and efficient committees, to
be charged respectively with the arrangement and
direction of the operations and conduct of each
department in the functions assigned to each by
the Trustees. That, in the performance of these
duties, it shall keep in view the purposes which it
is my aim to promote; give due attention to the
details necessary to accomplish them, and adopt
suitable measures to execute the plan of organi-
zation made by the Trustees, and carry into full
and useful effect my intentions as disclosed in this
letter.
The Trustees, after the Historical Society shall
have accepted these duties, shall, nevertheless,
possess a full and complete visitatorial power over
the proceedings of the Society touching the sub-
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