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• Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Contentment (New York: Hurst and Co., 1907), by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Possessions, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Friendship, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Man Who Wins, by Robert Herrick (Gutenberg text)

• Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders (New York: The Century Co., 1905), by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by Martin Justice (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1910), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Anna Green Winslow, ed. by Alice Morse Earle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 (third edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Anna Green Winslow, ed. by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and zipped page images)

• City Limits: Images of Boston in Transition (originally published 1987; Humanities Open Book edition Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2019), ed. by Kelly Wise, illust. by Roswell Angier, Polly Brown, Bill Burke, and Kelly Wise (multiple formats at Project MUSE)

• The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and Sayings of the People of the Town and Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts (Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1916), ed. by William Francis Macy and R. B. Hussey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Smith College Stories (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), by Josephine Daskam Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• When I lived in Salem, 1822-1866 (Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Daye Press, 1937), by Caroline Howard King, contrib. by Louisa L. Dresel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Walden: or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Henry David Thoreau (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (second edition, c1919), by Calvin Coolidge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Emancipation of Massachusetts: The Dream and the Reality, by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Remarks on Some Rare German Prints of New York and Quebec, and on Contributions in the Year 1781 by the Churches of Massachusetts to the Distressed Inhabitants of South Carolina and Georgia (ca. 1894), by Samuel A. Green
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Inquiry Into the Right to Change the Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts (with Morse's Report to the General Association of Massachusetts; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816), by John Lowell, contrib. by Jedidiah Morse
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Inventory of Universalist Archives in Massachusetts (1942), by Historical Records Survey (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extract of a Letter From the House of Representatives of the Massachusets-Bay, to Their Agent Dennys De Berdt, Esq; With Some Remarks (London: Printed by J. and W. Oliver, 1770), by Massachusetts House of Representatives (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Excursions, by Henry David Thoreau, contrib. by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
• From the Hub to the Hudson, by Washington Gladden (page images at MOA)
• A Loiterer in New England (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1919), by Helen W. Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Old Colony Railroad: Its Connections, Popular Resorts, and Fashionable Watering-Places, by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
• Pilgrim Trails: A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1921), by Frances Lester Warner, illust. by C. Scott White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton, With Introductory Matter and Notes (Boston: Prince Society, 1883), by Thomas Morton, ed. by Charles Francis Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes (London: Printed for C. Greene, ca. 1637), by Thomas Morton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes (Amsterdam: Printed by J. F. Stam, 1637), by Thomas Morton
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Shadow Over Innsmouth (as published in Weird Tales, 1942), by H. P. Lovecraft, illust. by Hannes Bok (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Fire People (as published in Argosy-AllStory Weekly, 1922), by Ray Cummings (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Our Gold Mine at Hollyhurst: A Prize Story of Massachusetts (Boston: American Humane Education Society, c1893), by Mary Matthews Bray, contrib. by George T. Angell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, by the Names of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grout, Goulding, and Twitchell (Boston: Printed for the author, 1857), by Abner Morse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family of Bray Wilkins, "Patriarch of Will's Hill", of Salem (Middleton), Mass. (Milford, NH: Printed at the Cabinet Press, 1943), by William Carroll Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Twitchell Family: Record of the Descendants of the Puritan, Benjamin Twitchell, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632-1927 (New York: Privately printed for H. K. Twitchell, 1929), by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Perrin Family (facsimile reprint; originally published 1885), by Glover Perin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Haverhill Emersons (2 volumes; Boston and Cambridge: Murray and Emerson Co., 1913-1916), by Charles Henry Pope
  • Part First: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part Second: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hendrick Genealogy: Daniel Hendrick of Haverhill, Mass. and His Descendants, With An Appendix Containing Brief Accounts of Several Other Hendrick Families (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co., 1923), by Chas. T. Hendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families; With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., etc. (Providence: Printed for the author by the Providence Press Co., 1871), by David Webster Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (partial serial archives)
• Defence of Massachusetts: Speech of Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856 (pamphlet; 1856), by Anson Burlingame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defence of Massachusetts: Speech of Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the United States House of Representatives, June 21, 1856 (Cambridge, MA: Printed for Private Distribution, 1856), by Anson Burlingame (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Loiterer in New England (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1919), by Helen W. Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Early Massachusetts Press, 1638-1711 (2 volumes; Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1907), by George Emery Littlefield (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the Hub to the Hudson, by Washington Gladden (page images at MOA)

• Cultural Landscape Report for Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts (2006), by Christopher M. Stevens, Margie Coffin Brown, Ryan Reedy, and Patrick Eleey (PDF at National Park Service)

• Sketches From Concord and Appledore, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)

• The Presentation of a Samurai Sword: The Gift of Doctor Toichiro Nakahama, of Tokio, Japan, to the Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, by Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, July the Fourth, Nineteen Hundred Eighteen (Fairhaven, MA: Millicent Library, 1918)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens: His Diary Kept When a Prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, 1865, Giving Incidents and Reflections of His Prison Life and Some Letters And Reminiscences (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1910), by Alexander H. Stephens, ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the Hub to the Hudson, by Washington Gladden (page images at MOA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.