News From Massachusetts where they say Kurt Hasselbalch, curator of the Hart Nautical Collections, stumbled upon a cache of late 18th-century state documents, many bearing the signature of John Hancock.
He believes the documents were loaned in 1941 to the Hart Nautical Museum to augment the inaugural exhibition of the Forbes Whaling Collection. Everything changed when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and MIT went into war emergency mode. The documents were put into a file and the loan was forgotten. Another war, 60 years later, delayed its return to the state last year.
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