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Boston Athenaeum

A robber's last wish, and the man he tried to rob.

Collection: Boston: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Stone front of the Boston Athenaeum
Stone front of the Boston Athenaeum · ajay_suresh, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Somewhere in this library is a book said to be bound in the skin of the man who wrote it. He called himself James Allen, and also George Walton. He could not write. He dictated his life to the warden of the state prison as he lay dying of consumption in 1837. The memoir describes the night he stopped a wagon on the Salem Turnpike, near Chelsea Bridge, and demanded "his money or his life."

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Visiting

10 1/2 Beacon Street. Open Monday to Thursday nine to eight, Friday and Saturday nine to five, closed Sundays. First-floor admission is eleven dollars; a day pass is forty, per its site. The book in this story is not on display.

Photos

The Athenaeum’s Summer Staircase, old view
The Athenaeum’s Summer Staircase, old view · Boston Athenaeum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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