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A conference paper about artist and publisher William Cook is presented. Cook resided in Salem, Massachusetts. It discusses Cook's family, including his father, navigator Captain William Cook. The report also discusses Cook's religious aberrations, the self-publishing of his books, and a poem he wrote concerning Chestnut Street in Salem. A bibliography of his work is provided.

Information is presented on a semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held on April 14, 1920 at the House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. Topics discussed include the leaking roof of the library, a committee to collect ballots for potential membership, and U.S. president Thomas Jefferson.