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The parochial library of the eighteenth century in Christ Church, Boston
Merritt, Percival, 1860-1932, 1917. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.
Document
- Type
- book
- Author
- Merritt, Percival, 1860-1932
- Publisher
- Boston : Merrymount Press
- Published, as stated
- 1917
- Language
- en
- Media type
text/plain; charset=utf-8- Size
- 100664 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
5466272a2ebeaaa0680fbf1d777ed36c62a318f4838e4340177d91f620c6f1fc
Text
Extracted text, as held. Quoted without alteration.
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Who wrote The parochial library of the eighteenth century in Christ Church, Boston, and who published it?
Merritt, Percival, 1860-1932 wrote it. It was published at Boston by Merrymount Press, 1917.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
Does the archive hold The parochial library of the eighteenth century in Christ Church, Boston itself, or only the record of it?
The archive holds the bytes. Their digest, computed on the bytes as retrieved and before any transform, is SHA-256 5466272a2ebeaaa0680fbf1d777ed36c62a318f4838e4340177d91f620c6f1fc. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
What does the archive hold for The parochial library of the eighteenth century in Christ Church, Boston, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of The parochial library of the eighteenth century in Christ Church, Boston from Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929 (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Merritt, Percival, 1860-1932.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:document:the-parochial-library-of-the-eighteenth-century-in-christ-church-boston
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/document/the-parochial-library-of-the-eighteenth-century-in-christ-church-boston
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/document/the-parochial-library-of-the-eighteenth-century-in-christ-church-boston.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Internet Archive — Boston texts — source of record
- License
- Public domain — published before 1929 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- parochiallibrar00merrgoog
- Attribution
- Merritt, Percival, 1860-1932
- Rights as stated
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (Internet Archive item rights review), corroborated by the item's own publication date of 1917 — before 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States
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| 2 | fetch | retrieved the holding institution's own full-text transcription | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | digest | computed the SHA-256 of the bytes as retrieved, before any other step | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 4 | stage | wrote the bytes to the staging directory under their content address | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 5 | hold | kept the transcription in full so the archive can quote a passage without leaving itself | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |