Excerpt from Devonshire Street: A Collection of Facts and Incidents Together With Reproductions of Illustrations Pertaining to an Old Boston Street HE Second National Bank takes pleasure in presenting to you this brief story of Devonshire Street. It does not purpose to be more than a bird's-eye View of the vital and interesting part the street has long played in the develop ment of Boston. Here are gathered within a few pages the facts and romances relating to Devonshire Street, which are of interest to the business man as well as to the student of history. Much of the material has been gleaned from old deeds and journals and other authentic sources. The pamphlet is in such form that it may be readily bound for preservation in your library. The coat-of-arms on the title-page is a reproduction of that of John Wilson, the town's first pastor and one of its founders. The vignette of the door on the opposite page and that at the end of the book are from a photograph of the entrance to the Second National Bank. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.