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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Access to these rooms is obtained by a staircase which leads to the centre of a hall parallel with and adjoining the upper part of the wall of the " Bates
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Hall." It is 84 feet long and 23 feet wide, and is lit entirely from the roof. It is called the Sargent hall, as it is decorated by Mr. John S. Sargent. Part only of his work is as yet fixed: the complete
