If you are affiliated with Suffolk University and are willing to purchase a "guest card."
The Sawyer Library has a "proprietor's" (also know as a "shareholder") membership to The Boston Athenaeum, left to us in the estate of Phillip Putnam Chase in 1979. Our membership status is not transferable to others.
The Boston Athenaeum allows proprietors to sponsor annual "guest cards." A guest card entitles the holder to most of the privileges of membership.
For details on obtaining a Boston Athenaeum guest card, please contact Gregory Heald gheald@suffolk.edu for details.