The collections of the Pilgrim Society are of great historical value. In Pilgrim Hall are preserved personal and household belongings of the Pilgrims, documents with their signatures, their books and Bibles, and the only known portrait of one of their number. Here is the patent issued to the Plymouth Colony in 1621, and the swords of their Governor, Carver, and their Captain, Myles Standish. Near by, a bit of woman’s embroidery, a baby’s shoe--great things and small,--the human element of a great transitional epoch, saved by reverential descendants to become an inheritance for another epoch. A copy of the Bible translated for the Indians by John Eliot; an agreement with an Indian Sachem, drawn up and signed by John Alden; and a large collection of Indian relics and arrowheads, bear witness here to the life of the wilderness which the Pilgrims assailed with treaty, faith, and sword. The handsome library contains books, documents, and pamphlets relating to Pilgrim history, with many original records, and affords great opportunities for quiet research. Its windows look down into a shady garden belonging to the Hall, where visitors may rest and refresh themselves by a little fountain presented to the Pilgrim Society by the General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution on September 20th, 1921. As they loiter, they may mark the flight of time on a sun dial, presented by the Society of the Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century. It was dedicated in September, 1921. The collections can best be studied with the help of the curator and the catalogue, but some of the most interesting objects connected with the early Pilgrims are those which belonged to: GOVERNOR CARVER--His sword and armchair. GOVERNOR BRADFORD--His “Dialogue” in his own handwriting. A book given to him by John Robinson, and afterwards given by him to the First Church. A Bible printed in Geneva in 1592. A plate. ELDER BREWSTER--His sword, christening bowl, and a copy of Seneca from his library. CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH--His sword, with an Arabic inscription which was translated in 1881 by Prof. James Rosedale, to read--“With peace God ruled his slaves, and with the judgement of his arm, He troubled the iniquity of the wicked.” An iron pot and pewter trencher, a fragment of a quilt which belonged to his wife, Rose Standish, and an embroidered sampler worked by his daughter, Lora; her baby’s cap and bib. GOVERNOR EDWARD WINSLOW--Part of a chest, a mortar, a silver canteen, and several pewter plates, bearing the family coat of arms, his portrait painted in England, and the great table which stood in the Council Chamber when Winslow governed the Colony. MISTRESS SUSANNAH WHITE, _afterward wife of_ GOVERNOR WINSLOW--A cape and a slipper. WILLIAM WHITE--A cabinet, and a candlestick. PEREGRINE WHITE--Signature on a deed. JOHN ALDEN--His Bible printed in 1661, a halberd found in his house in Duxbury, a deed with his signature.