[184] _Ibid._, p. 308. The list of members of the Committee of Vigilance given by Austin Bearse, the doorkeeper of the Committee, contains two hundred and nine names. Among these are A. Bronson Alcott, Edward Atkinson, Henry I. Bowditch, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Lewis Hayden, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel G. Howe, Francis Jackson, Ellis Gray Loring, James Russell Lowell, Theodore Parker, Edmund Quincy and others of distinction. See pp. 3, 4, 5, 6, in Mr. Bearse's _Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave-Law Days in Boston_. [185] For much valuable material relating to the Vigilance Committee of Boston, see Theodore Parker's _Scrap-Book_, in the Boston Public Library. The meeting-place of the Boston Committee was Meionaon Hall in Tremont Temple. Members were notified of an intended meeting personally, if possible, by the doorkeeper of the committee, Captain Austin Bearse.[186] The proceedings of the committee were secret, and comparatively little is now known about their work. It is, however, known that for ten years the organization was active, and that although it was not successful in rescuing Sims and Burns from a hard fate, it nevertheless secured the liberty of more than a hundred others.[187] [186] Mr. Bearse says: "There were printed tickets of notice which I delivered to each member in person, if possible, of which the following copies are specimens: 'BOSTON, June 7, 1854. There will be a meeting of the Vigilance Committee at the Meionaon (Tremont Temple), on _Thursday evening_, June 8, at half-past seven. Pass in by the _Office Entrance_, and through the _Meionaon Ante-Room_. THEODORE PARKER, _Chairman of Executive Committees_.' 'VIGILANCE COMMITTEE! The members of the Vigilance Committee are hereby notified to meet at ---- ---- By order of the Committee, A. BEARSE, _Doorkeeper_.'" --_Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave-Law Days in Boston_, pp. 15, 16. [187] _Ibid._, p. 14.